Initiated as a project that sought to combine the strengths of both Helvetica and Univers, it had the misfortune of being released for phototypesetting just as the technology was being made obsolete by desktop publishing, and subsequent corporate mergers and a copyright dispute kept a digital version off the market.

In 1972 the now defunct Haas Type Foundry (Switzerland) bought its French competitor Deberny & Peignot.

Neue Haas Unica also has a Paneuropean (W1G) version that offers Greek and Cyrillic character coverage.

It was created in cooperation of Maurice Göldner and Christian Mengelt (who was a member of Team ’77 and authorised this implementation of Unica) for the Swiss type foundry Lineto.

[8] According to the type designer, Albert-Jan Pool, Lineto is (contrary to Monotype) paying a licence fee to Team ’77.

The initial release on 7 March 2015 had 8 fonts in 4 weights (light, regular, bold, black) and 1 width, with complementary italics.