The Fonderie Olive, in English, Olive Foundry, was a small but high profile type foundry

Type foundry

A type foundry is a company that designs or distributes typefaces. Originally, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and Monotype machines designed to be printed on letterpress printers...

 located in Marseilles, France

France

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. It is best known for the work of the typeface designer Roger Excoffon

Roger Excoffon

Roger Excoffon , French typeface designer and graphic designer.Excoffon was born in Marseilles, studied law at the University of Aix-en-Provence, and after, moved to Paris to apprentice in a print shop. In 1947 he formed his own advertising agency and concurrently became design director of a small...

. In 1978 the foundry was acquired by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company which transferred photocomposition rights for all faces to Haas

Haas

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Typefaces

These foundry types were produced by Fonderie Olive: