Type foundry
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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. Today's digital type foundries accumulate and distribute typefaces (typically as digitized fonts) created by type designers, who may either be freelancers operating their own independent foundry, or employed by another foundry. Type foundries may also provide custom type design services.
In England, type foundries began in 1476, when William Caxton introduced the printing press. Thereafter the City of London became a major centre for the industry, until recent times when famous metal-based printing districts such as Fleet Street came to the close of their era. The industry was particularly important in Victorian times, when education became available to all due to the new School Boards, and firms such as Charles Reed & Sons were in their heyday. The St Bride Printing Library in the City of London encourages wider public interest in the remarkable history of typefounding for the printed book and newspaper.
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Corporate type foundries
- Adobe Type, a division of Adobe Sys Inc.
- Apple Inc.
- Letraset
- Monotype Imaging
- Ascender Corporation a subsidiary of Monotype Imaging
- Bitstream a subsidiary of Monotype Imaging
- FontShop a subsidiary of Monotype Imaging, Located in Germany
- International Typeface Corporation (ITC) a subsidiary of Monotype Imaging
- Linotype GmbH a subsidiary of Monotype Imaging, Located in Germany
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Large form type foundries
- Berthold
- Elsner+Flake
- Emigre
- Font Bureau
- Hoefler & Co. (H&Co)
- House Industries
- Microsoft Typography, a division of Microsoft Corp
- Neufville Typefoundry (Fundición Tipográfica Neufville)
- Paratype
- T26 Digital Type Foundry
- URW++ (Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber)
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Independent type foundries
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Specialty type foundries
- Punchcut — Distributors of typefaces for handheld screens (mobile phones)
Active metal type foundries (letterpress)
- Quaker City Type Foundry
- Offizin Parnassia Type Foundry
- The Dale Guild Type Foundry
- Mackenzie & Harris Type Foundry
- Skyline Type Foundry
- Bell Type and Rule Company - a 78-year-old type foundry.
- Rainer Gerstenberg (ex Schriftenservice D. Stempel)
Defunct (historic) type foundries
- American Type Founders
- Barnhart Brothers & Spindler
- Bauer Type
- Binny & Ronaldson
- Bruce's New York Type Foundry
- Charles Reed & Sons
- Deberny & Peignot
- Grafotechna
- Gujarati Type Foundry
- John Haddon & Co
- Inland Type Foundry
- Louis Pouchée
- Mackellar, Smiths & Jordan
- Missouri-Central Type Foundry, Wichita (purchased by Typefounders of Chicago in 1970s)
- Stephenson Blake
- St Louis Type Foundry
- VEB Typoart
Type distributors/vendors
- Fontever
- Fonts.com (Monotype Corporation)
- FontHaus
- FontShop
- MyFonts (Bitstream Inc.)
- Phil's Fonts
- type.co.uk (Fontworks UK Ltd)
- Typekit
- Veer (Corbis)
References
External links
- Creativepro.com – Commercial Foundries list
- Microsoft Typography – All foundries and font related product vendors
- Typophile: Type Foundry List
- MyFonts: Font Foundries
- Luc Devroye: Font vendors
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