The only way I know of is use fonts.com's service.

http://webfonts.fonts.com/en-US/Project/ChooseFonts#keyword%3DHelvetica%...

there might be a better way, but this seems to be the best way. (note: it still looks ugly on WinXP version of firefox, chrome, ie 7 and under....pretty much everything that doesn't anti-alias)

http://webfonts.fonts.com/en-US/Project/ChooseFonts?ViewDetails=T&ViewFo... Good enough?

The one I linked to has pretty decent hinting. It's hard to navigate their site, that's all. Monotype probably have some of the best truetype hinters in the world. The ultra light had some issues in mid sizes, but the light looks fairly nice, judging by the small sample.

thanks frode, learn something new everyday

I saw it in use on http://telus.com. I don't think they are using externally hosted version, so perhaps ask fonts.com a question and reference Telus usage?

As of two years ago, there weren't any options, but Linotype now licenses it for use on the web:

http://www.linotype.com/6309/webfontservice.html

Hi everyone,

I represent Fonts.com Web Fonts and if there's any additional help we can provide please let us know! We offer Helvetica Neue in our Web Fonts program and self hosting is now available. Please get in touch with me on here or via twitter @fontscom if there's anything we can do to help.

Thanks everyone. I couldn't find a @fontface version of Helvetica Neue that worked cross platform. Maybe it is just me being thick. I did find a that Nimbus Sans Novus is avail in a CSS @fontface version. Thanks again and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on the @fontface Helvetica Neue issue.

G

What was the issue? Did you try the versions at Linotype and Fonts.com?

@aluminum: I think Gus just want to stick with css3 and didn't want add JavaScript unless he have to (or 20 other reasons).

@Gus Helvetica Neue (most fonts) aren't made for browsers. That is why typekit/fonts.com had to re-work them to look ok on different browser.

further reading: Typekit's Tim Brown discussing about type rendering on browsers.
http://blog.typekit.com/category/type-rendering/

@jwchen I Don't think there's any reason why you'd have to use JS. Linotype will let you host the fonts if you want to.