Download Neue Haas Unica. The font is available in all formats (Neue Haas Unica woff2, Neue Haas Unica woff, Neue Haas Unica ttf, Neue Haas Unica eot) and applicable to the website, photoshop and any OS. Like the Neue Helvetica and Univers Next typefaces, the Neue Haas Unica family can be used just about anywhere – or for any project. In addition to its 9 tailored weights and complementary italics, the Neue Haas Unica family also possesses additional characters for Eastern and Central European, Greek and Cyrillic language support, which did.
This week, the Web went giddy at the knees over the release of Monotype’s Neue Haas Unica. The typeface is a redesign of Haas Unica, itself an attempt to fuse the better qualities of Helvetica and Univers.
- 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.Thus Helvetica (a.k.a. Neue Haas Grotesk) and Univers were from then on held by the same company.
- Neue Haas Unica by Toshi Omagari: The original purpose behind the creation of the typeface Haas Unica was to provide a sympathetic update of Helvetica. But now the font designer Toshi Omagari has decided to make this typeface his own and has thus significantly supplemented and extended it. In the late 1970s, at the same time at which hot metal typesetting was being.
Originally designed in the late ’70s and published in 1980 by the Haas type foundry. The design was mired in legal constraints and was subsequently lost. Discovered in storage, it was subsequently redesigned by Toshi Omagari of Monotype.
The reaction to Neue Haas Unica has been overwhelmingly positive with designers praising the subtle blend of character and precision. Certainly there’s no denying that at display sizes Neue Haas Unica is unbelieveably beautiful.
What’s more Neue Haas Unica has been drawn for the screen, in which process, many of the limitations that make Helvetica so poor as a UI face have been corrected. The design has a modernist simplicity that Apple would surely love to have uncovered when developing San Francisco.
A little more spacious, and a little rounder, than Helvetica, Neue Haas Unica is a very tempting grotesk to keep handy. It has 18 different fonts, the lightest of which is available free, the rest of which are available at a discount until 7th May. It also features extended language support, including Greek and Cyrillic.
As well as working for UI design, Neue Haas Unica is tolerable for body text, although there are certainly still better options available.
it couldn’t be more mid-century modern if it were sat in a Knoll armchair, in a Frank Lloyd Wright office building, sipping martinis with Don Draper
Like its parents, Helvetica and Univers, Neue Haas Unica really excells at display sizes. It perfectly evokes modernism; in fact it couldn’t be more mid-century modern if it were sat in a Knoll armchair, in a Frank Lloyd Wright office building, sipping martinis with Don Draper.
And that may be Neue Haas Unica’s single undoing. Like an ad-exec who’s just bought his first pair of skinny jeans and started growing a beard, Neue Haas Unica may find that particular boat has sailed. Whilst Neue Haas Unica is beautiful in its own right, it evokes both the design of the 1950s, and the spirit of 1980s corporate America, but it does it so well, that it’s hard to see it working in any other context.
It’s a truth universally acknowledged, that we only want what we can’t have. For over a decade web designers struggled to make gradients work, even going as far as relying on site-bloating transparent pngs; as soon as CSS3 introduced gradient support in browsers, we embraced flat design.
It seems like for the past decade foundries have been searching for the Holy Grail of alternative geometric sans serifs to the old staples. Unica got there first. — Stefanie Weigler & David Heasty
Perhaps we craved a successful grotesk face for the Web, only so long as we didn’t have one. If it had been released five years ago it would certainly be the sans serif of choice, but whether Neue Haas Unica survives longer than its non-Neue predecessor, we’ll have to wait and see.
Neue Haas Unica typeface was designed on 1970s to be Helvetica’s sequel. Thanks to an effort by Monotype designer Toshi Omagari it is finally available.
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Neue Haas Unica is Monotype’s revival of a typeface that has attained almost mythical status in the type community. Unica was an attempt to create the ultimate sans-serif – a hybrid of Helvetica, Univers and Akzidenz Grotesk. Designed by Team ’77 and released to great acclaim in 1980, Unica went missing under a heap of legal disputes and has never been available as a full, digital typeface. Until now.
For 2015, Monotype’s Toshi Omagari has given this classic a fresh, digital lease of life, with a full set of weights, an extended range of glyphs and multi-language support.
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Neue Haas Unica Thin is available for free download.