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A type foundry is a company that designs and/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 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 Systems Inc.
- Letraset
- Bitstream
- Monotype Imaging
- International Typeface Corporation (ITC) a subsidiary of Monotype Imaging
- Linotype GmbH a subsidiary of Monotype Imaging
See also categories: Type foundries and Commercial type foundries
Large type foundries
- Ascender Corporation
- Berthold
- Elsner+Flake
- Emigre
- Font Bureau
- FontFont, a division of FSI FontShop International
- Hoefler & Frere-Jones (H&FJ)
- House Industries
- Neufville (Fundición Tipográfica Neufville)
- Paratype
- T26
- URW++ (URW)
See also categories: Type foundries and Commercial type foundries
Independent type foundries
- 2Rebels
- Aerotype
- Apply Interactive
- Arkandis Digital Foundry
- Astygmatic One-Eye
- Atomic Media
- Baseline Fonts
- Blambot
- Canada Type
- Cape Arcona Type Foundry
- Chank Diesel
- Characters Font Foundry
- Colophon Foundry
- Comicraft
- Crazy diamond design
- Cubanica
- Dalton Maag
- Discourse Type
- Darren Scott Typographics
- DSType
- Emtype Foundry
- Feliciano Type Foundry
- Fewell Foundry
- Fontcraft
- Font Diner
- FontHaus
- Fonthead Design
- Fontosaurus
- Fountain
- Galapagos Design Group
- GarageFonts
- Greater Albion Typefounders
- JY&A Fonts
- Identikal
- insigne Design
- Larabie Fonts/Typodermic
- LettError
- Lineto
- Misprinted Type
- MVB
- Nick's Fonts
- OurType
- P22 Type Foundry
- Psy/Ops
- Sandoll Communications
- Scriptorium Fonts
- SelfBuild Type Foundry
- Stone Type Foundry
- Storm Type Foundry
- Sudtipos
- Suitcase Type Foundry
- Test Pilot Collective
- The Type Fetish
- Thirstype/Village
- Tour De Force Font Foundry
- Typeco
- Typographies.fr
- Typotheque
- Underware
- Zang-O-Fonts
- WC Fonts
See also categories: Type foundries and Independent type foundries
Specialty type foundries
- Punchcut (Punchcut.com) - Distributors of typefaces for handheld screens (mobile phones)
Defunct (historic) type foundries
- American Type Founders
- Barnhart Brothers & Spindler
- Charles Reed & Sons
- Grafotechna
- Louis Pouchée
- VEB Typoart
Type distributors/vendors
- Fonts.com (Monotype Corporation)
- FontHaus
- FontShop
- MyFonts (Bitstream Inc.)
- Phil's Fonts
- type.co.uk (Fontworks UK Ltd)
- Veer (Corbis)
See also category: Type vendors
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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