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That readability is what draws Rhatigan to the font. It really was this sort of lost treasure.' But since it wasn't widely available, a lot of people did not have a chance to work with it and see if it was as good as the legend that had grown up around it. 'The cult aspect became more and more obvious as we talked to people about working on it,' Rhatigan says. When he and Rhatigan would mention the project, people would invariably get excited. Omagari drew a number of different weights and languages. Omagari redrew the letters from scratch, following the intention of original design but fine-tuning the letters and spacing for modern, digital work. Rhatigan showed the materials to Monotype designer Toshi Omagari, who quickly took up its resurrection as a side project.

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'We tried to find out, does this really mean that we are free to do with this what we want?' A short investigation revealed: Yes, Monotype owned both the name and the rights.

Rhatigan had been dimly aware of the typeface from postings on typography forums, and for a designer who wears his love of typography on his sleeves quite literally, in the form of tattoos of cherished letters, finding the fabled typeface was a thrill. The transparent pages each had a single letter, crisp and clean and ten inches tall: The photographic film masters for Unica. He was rooting around in storage, looking for old material, when he happened upon a box of tracing paper and transparent sheets. In term of language support, Unica77 offers 4 versions, namely 'Latin', 'Cyrillic', 'Greek', and 'PanEuro'.In late 2012, Rhatigan was visiting Monotype's outpost in Germany, which had previously been the office of storied typesetting outfit Mergenthaler Linotype Company. 6 fonts in 3 additional weights (Thin, Medium, Extra Black) were released in February 2016. Initial version was released on with 8 fonts in 4 weights (light, regular, bold, black) and 1 width, with complementary italics. This release uses stylistic alternates to offer a version with round dots and punctuation. Changes to Haas Unica include added Euro sign, with vertical terminals as in Univers and Neue Helvetica. According to the type designer, Albert-Jan Pool, Lineto is (contrary to Monotype) paying a licence fee to TeamвЂ‰вЂ™77. It was created in cooperation of Maurice GГ¶ldner and Christian Mengelt (who was a member of TeamвЂ‰вЂ™77 and authorised this implementation of Unica) for the Swiss type foundry Lineto. This is a revival based on the original drawings from the 1970s. Some stores bundle 'Pro' and 'W1G' together. As for language support, Neue Haas Unica has two versions, known as 'Pro' and 'W1G' (i.e., a pan-European version), the latter of which offers Greek and Cyrillic character coverage. It does not offer rounded dots, but does include small caps. The Euro sign in this version has horizontal terminals as in Helvetica and Neue Haas Grotesk. The font family includes 9 weights in 1 width, with complementary italics, totalling 18 styles.

#Neue haas unica. archive

Neue Haas Unica (2014-2015) Дesigned by Toshi Omagari for Monotype, this is a revival based on the TeamвЂ‰'77's Unica phototypesetting files found in the Monotype's archive in Germany. Modern Revivals Unica Intermediate (Unreleased) Д¬reated by Louise Paradis, this revival was never publicly released. Unica SH has tighter letter spacing than Unica SB. 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). As the typeface is no longer legally available, its technical details have become unclear. 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.

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Because of the rise of desktop publishing software and an ownership dispute, the typeface disappeared very soon from the market. 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. The task was given to TeamвЂ‰вЂ™77 (AndrГ© GГјrtler, Christian Mengelt and Erich Gschwind). During the 1970s Haas decided to introduce an updated version of Helvetica for electronic on-screen phototypesetting. Neue Haas Grotesk) and Univers were from then on held by the same company. The latter was the holder of the copyright of the Univers.

In 1972 the now defunct Haas Type Foundry (Switzerland) bought its french competitor Deberny & Peignot. 2.4 Differences between Neue Haas Unica and Unica77.