The Prix Charles Peignot (Charles Peignot Prize) is a major award in typeface design, given "to a designer under the age of 35 who has made an outstanding contribution to type design". It is awarded irregularly, typically every three to five years, by the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI, the international typographic association). It was first given in 1982.
3-536: The prize is named after Charles Peignot (1897–1983), type designer, director of the Deberny & Peignot type foundry, and founder and first president of ATypI. Winners to date of this award have been: This design -related article 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 . Deberny %26 Peignot Deberny & Peignot ( Fonderie Deberny et Peignot )
6-677: 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 . 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
9-494: 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 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
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