Nicolas Cochin® Font Family

Nicolas Cochin® Regular (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Nicolas Cochin® Italic (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Nicolas Cochin® Black (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Nicolas Cochin® Complete Family Value Pack (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 69.00

The French designer Georges Peignot (born 24. 6. 1872, died 28. 9. 1915) created the fonts Cochin™ (1914) and Nicolas Cochin (1912). Georges Peignot designed Cochin™ based on copper engravings of the 18th century and Charles Malin cut the typeface in 1912 for the Paris foundry Deberny & Peignot. The font is named after the French engraver Charles Nicolas Cochin (1715–1790) although its style had little to do with that of the copper artist's. The font displays a curious mix of style elements [...]

Created by a merger of the two companies Deberny & Cie (founded 1818) and Peignot & fils (founded 1842) in 1923. Its main font designers were A. M. Cassandre and Adrian Frutiger. One of the first practicable phototypesetting machines, the Lumitype, was developed in the 1950s. In 1972, the company was acquired by the Haas foundry (Haas’sche Gießerei) in Münchenstein.

Georges Peignot designed the font Nicolas Cochin based on copper engravings of the 18th century and Charles Malin cut the typeface in 1912 for the Paris foundry Deberny & Peignot. The font is named after the French engraver Charles Nicolas Cochin (1715-1790) although its style had little to do with that of the copper artist. Nicholas Cochin is a freer variation of another Peignot font, Cochin, a bit more balanced and elegant.