Industry | Type foundry |
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Founded | 1836 |
Founder | Marcel Olive |
Defunct | 1978 |
Headquarters | Marseille, France |
Key people | Roger Excoffon |
The Fonderie Olive, in English, Olive Foundry, was a small but high-profile type foundry located in Marseille, France. It is best known for the work of the typeface designer Roger Excoffon. In 1978 the foundry was acquired by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company which transferred photocomposition rights for all faces to Haas.