Haas Type Foundry was a Swiss manufacturer of foundry type

Movable type

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. First the factory was located in Basel

Basel

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, in the 1920's they relocated to Münchenstein

Münchenstein

Münchenstein is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.-Historical records:Münchenstein is first mentioned in 1196 as Kekingen. In 1270 it was mentioned as Geckingen and in 1279 as Munchenstein.* 1259: The hamlet and the mill, between "Neue...

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History

Haas traces its origins back the to printer Jean Exertier who began casting type during the second half of the 16th century, later passing to the Genath family. In 1718, Johann Wilhelm Haas (1698–1764) from Nuremberg was hired. He later inherited the company as recognition of his efforts. After 1740, the business was run under the Haas name. In 1927 the Stempel Foundry acquired a shareholding in the Haas foundry and the two foundries begin to share matrices. Haas purchased the French foundries Deberny & Peignot

Deberny & Peignot

Deberny & Peignot was a French type foundry, created by the 1923 merger of Peignot foundry and the Laurent & Deberny foundry. It was bought by the Haas Type Foundry of Switzerland in 1972, which in turn was merged into D...

 in 1972, and Fonderie Olive

Fonderie Olive

The Fonderie Olive, in English, Olive Foundry, was a small but high profile type foundry located in Marseilles, France. It is best known for the work of the typeface designer Roger Excoffon...

 in 1978. With Linotype’s acquisition of the D. Stempel AG in 1985, they became the majority shareholder. In 1989, Linotype shut down the Haas Foundry, retaining the rights to the typefaces, and transfering metal typefounding operations to Walter Fruttiger AG.

Typefaces

These foundry types were produced by Haas:

• Akzidenz Grotesk
  Akzidenz Grotesk
  Akzidenz-Grotesk is a grotesque typeface originally released by the Berthold Type Foundry in 1896 under the name Accidenz-Grotesk...
  
   mager, Wagner & Schmidt
• Akzidenz Grotesk halbfett, Wagner & Schmidt
• Akzidenz Grotesk fett, Wagner & Schmidt
• Akzidenz Grotesk breitmager, Wagner & Schmidt
• Akzidenz Grotesk breithalbfett, Wagner & Schmidt
• Akzidenz Grotesk breitfett, Wagner & Schmidt
• Aldine
• Alt-Fraktur fett, 1840
• Altgotisch fett
• Anzeigen Grotesk fett
• Basler Fraktur
• Basler Fraktur halbfett
• Basler Fraktur fett
• Basler Fraktur schmalhalbfett
• Basler Schwabacher
• Bodoni
  Bodoni
  -Cold Type versions:As it had been a standard type for many years, Bodoni was widely available in cold type. Alphatype, Autologic, Berthold, Compugraphic, Dymo, Harris, Mergenthaler, MGD Graphic Systems, and Varityper, Hell AG, Monotype, all sold the face under the name ‘’Bodoni, while Graphic...
  
   Antiqua mager, 1927, E. Thiele, Berthold Types
• Bodoni Kursiv mager, 1928, E. Thiele, Berthold Types
• Bodoni Antiqua normal, 1924, E. Thiele, Berthold Types
• Bodoni Kursiv normal, 1924, E. Thiele, Berthold Types
• Bodoni Antiqua halbfett, 1926, E. Thiele, Berthold Types
• Bodoni Kursiv halbfett, 1926, E. Thiele, Berthold Types
• Bodoni Antiqua fett, 1930, E. Thiele, Berthold Types
• Bodoni Kursiv fett, 1931, E. Thiele, Berthold Types
• Bodoni Antiqua schmalfett, 1938, E. Thiele, Berthold Types
• Bravo, 1945, Emil A. Neukomm
• Carmen, 1940, Berthold Types
• Caslon
  Caslon
  Caslon refers to a number of serif typefaces designed by William Caslon I , and various revivals thereof.Caslon shares the irregularity characteristic of Dutch Baroque types. It is characterized by short ascenders and descenders, bracketed serifs, moderately-high contrast, robust texture, and...
  
   Antiqua, 1940, Berthold Types
• Caslon Kursiv, 1924
• Castor, Albert Auspurg
• Chancelère moderne
• Chevalier, 1946, E. A. Neukomm, Linotype
• Clarendon
  Clarendon (typeface)
  Clarendon is an English slab-serif typeface that was created in England by Robert Besley for Thorowgood and Co. , a type company formerly known as the Fann Street Foundry until approximately 1838. The font was published in 1845 after Besley, an employee of the foundry since 1826, was made a partner...
  
   kräftig, 1953, Hermann Eidenbenz, Linotype
• Clarendon fett, 1953, Hermann Eidenbenz, Linotype
• Cleo
• Cleo halbfett
• Columbia
• Commercial Grotesk halbfett, 1940, E. Thiele
• Commercial Grotesk fett, 1945
• Commercial Grotesk Compact, 1964
• Cosmos, 1989
• Écriture ornée
• Egyptienne
  Egyptienne
  For the Royal Navy Frigate, see HMS Egyptienne Egyptienne is a serif typeface belonging to the classification slab serif, or Egyptian, where the serifs are unbracketed and similar in weight to the horizontal strokes of the letters...
  
  
• Egyptienne halbfett
• Estienne
• Etienne schmalfett
• Favorita
• Favorita fett
• Fontana
• Froben Gotisch, Wagner & Schmidt
• Froben Gotisch halbfett, Wagner & Schmidt
• Gotisch modern, Hermann Eidenbenz
• Graphique, 1945
• Graziella
• Grotesk halbfett
• Grotesk schlank fett
• Grotesk kompakt, 1893
• Grotesk breitfett
• Grotesk eng

• Helvetica
  Helvetica
  Helvetica is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann.-Visual distinctive characteristics:Characteristics of this typeface are:lower case:square dot over the letter i....
  
  mager, 1958, Max Miedinger, Linotype
• Helvetica halbfett, 1957, Max Miedinger, Linotype
• Helvetica Kursiv halbfett, 1969, Linotype
• Helvetica fett, 1959, Max Miedinger, Linotype
• Helvetica Kursiv fett, 1967, Linotype
• Helvetica extrabreit leicht, 1972
• Helvetica extrabreit viertelfett, 1974
• Helvetica breitfett, 1959
• Helvetica schmalhalbfett
• Helvetica schmalfett
• Helvetica Compact, 1964
• Helvetica Outline, 1973
• Herkules
• Hermes, 1922
• Horizontal, 1965, Max Miedinger
• Ideal Antiqua schmalhalbfett, E. Thiele
• Inserat Grotesk schmal, Wagner & Schmidt
• Inserat Grotesk fett, Wagner & Schmidt
• Juno mager, Wagner & Schmidt
• Juno fett, Wagner & Schmidt, Linotype
• »Libertas«, Zweifarbenschrift
• Normal Grotesk
• Normal Grotesk mager
• Normal Grotesk Kursiv mager
• Normal Grotesk halbfett
• Normal Grotesk fett
• Normal Grotesk dreiviertelfett
• Normal Grotesk breitmager
• Normal Grotesk breithalbfett
• Normal Grotesk breitfett, Wagner & Schmidt
• Normande englisch
• Normande neu
• Nürnberger Schwabacher, 1927
• Pollux, 1925, Albert Auspurg
• Pro Arte, 1954, Max Miedinger
• Profil, 1947, Eugen and Max Lenz, Bitstream
• Renaissance modern mager
• Renaissance Kursiv
• Renaissance halbfett
• Renaissance Kursiv halbfett
• Rhenania, Wagner & Schmidt
• Rhenania Kursiv, Wagner & Schmidt
• Rhenania halbfett, Wagner & Schmidt
• Rhenania fett, 1941, Wagner & Schmidt
• Rhenania schmalhalbfett, Wagner & Schmidt
• Riccardo, Richard Gerbig
• Romana
• Romana Kursiv
• Romana halbfett
• Romana Kursiv halbfett
• Romana fett
• Sculptura, 1957
• Stella
• Superba, 1934, E. Thiele
• Superba fett, 1937, E. Thiele
• Superba licht, E. Thiele
• Teutonisch, 1934
• Titania, about 1906
• Troubadour, 1926, Wagner & Schmidt
• Troubadour halbfett, 1928, Wagner & Schmidt
• Troubadour licht, 1931, E. Thiele
• Universa, 1924
• Vertical, 1955

External links

• Erny & Schneider, Architekten, architectural plan for conversion of former Haas Type Foundry