In 1972 the now defunct Haas Type Foundry (Switzerland) bought its french competitor Deberny & Peignot. The latter was the holder of the copyright of the Univers. Neue Haas Grotesk) and Univers were from then on held by the same company. During the 1970s Haas decided to introduce an updated version of Helvetica for electronic on-screen phototypesetting. The Neue Haas Unica family is an extended, reimagined version of the Haas. The task was given to Team ’77 (André Gürtler, Christian Mengelt and Erich Gschwind). Download more than 10000 free fonts hassle free, desktop and mobile optimized. The result was a hybrid of mainly Helvetica and Univers, which gave it the name Unica (a portmanteau of Univers and Helvet ica), but they incorporated also features of other typefaces, like Akzidenz-Grotesk. Download Neue Haas Grotesk Display Pro font for PC/Mac for free, take a test-drive and see the entire character. #Neue haas unica regular free software#īecause of the rise of desktop publishing software and an ownership dispute, the typeface disappeared very soon from the market. Neue Haas Grotesk Display Pro Font Family. Until 2008 there was a digital implementation available from Scangraphic in the fontstore of Elsner+Flake, but this implementation had to be removed from the market because Linotype claimed the copyright of the defunct Haas Type Foundry. As the typeface is no longer legally available, its technical details have become unclear.
However, it has been suggested that this typeface has two optical sizes, namely SB (Scangraphic Body designed for body text) and SH (Scangraphic Headline designed for headings and display). Unica SH has tighter letter spacing than Unica SB. Modern Revivals Unica Intermediate (Unreleased) Ĭreated by Louise Paradis, this revival was never publicly released.
#Neue haas unica pro font family free archive
Neue Haas Unica (2014-2015) ĭesigned by Toshi Omagari for Monotype, this is a revival based on the Team '77's Unica phototypesetting files found in the Monotype's archive in Germany.
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