Deberny & Peignot ( Fonderie Deberny et Peignot ) was a French type foundry , created by the 1923 merger of G. Peignot & Fils and Deberny & Cie. It was bought by the Haas Type Foundry (Switzerland) in 1972, which in turn was merged into D. Stempel AG in 1985, then into Linotype GmbH in 1989, and is now part of Monotype Corporation .
4-484: Starting in 1925, Deberny & Peignot type was distributed in the United States by Continental Type Founders Association . These typefaces were produced by Deberny & Peignot: Deberny & Peignot's release of " Univers " in 1957 was the first typeface to be manufactured simultaneously as hand-set type, Monotype mechanical type, and photo type, bridging all the technological advances that had developed over
8-404: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This typography -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Continental Type Founders Association Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design
12-427: The history of typesetting to that time. The company produced twenty-one width and weight variations of "Univers," complete with an innovative numbering system that identified each characteristic, and dispensed with historical names, such as "bold" and "extra bold." This French history –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about an industrial corporation or company
16-472: Was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by imitating many of the more popular faces. A.T.F.'s Paramount and Monotype's Sans Serif series are two examples of this. The following foundries were represented: Beginning in 1927 Continental also distributed faces cast by Frederic Goudy , and two faces for Doug McMurtrie . At first Goudy's type
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