Haas Unica

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Credits

Designer(s)
Christian Mengelt, André Gürtler, Erich Gschwind
Foundry(ies)
Haas , Linotype
Release Year
1980
Country of Origin
Switzerland
Classification
Sans Serif, Grotesk
Original Format
Film Font (VGC, etc.)
Distributor(s)
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Tags
1980s, neo-grotesk, sans serif, swiss

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Typedesign by Team’77 (André Gürtler, Christian Mengelt, Erich Gschwind), 1977, under contract to Haas Typefoundry, as new sansserif typeface for Haas photo-typsetting, followed by the use for digital-typesetting systems of Linotype. Conception of a balanced font program and design of the8 basic fonts: Regular and Italic, Light and Light Italic, Medium and Medium Italic, and Bold with Bold Italic.

Presently, the Linotype and Scangraphic foundries both claim ownership of the type family. Because of this, Haas Unica is commercially unavailable.”

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Last edited by cmengelt on January 30, 2010, 09:31am EST

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