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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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matrix (often abbreviated to "mat") is a mould for casting the letters known as sorts used in letterpress printing.

In letterpress typography the matrix of one letter is inserted into the bottom of a hand mould, the mould is locked and molten type metal is poured into a
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Linotype can refer to:
  • Mergenthaler Linotype Company
  • Linotype machine

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Monotyping is a type of printmaking made by drawing or painting on a smooth, non-absorbent surface. The surface, or matrix, was historically a copper etching plate, but in contemporary work it can vary from zinc or glass to acrylic glass.
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Letterpress printing is a term for printing text with movable type, in which the raised surface of the type is inked and then pressed against a smooth substance to obtain an image in reverse.
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freelancer or freelance worker is a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer. The term "freelance" was first coined by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) in his well-known historical romance Ivanhoe
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William Caxton (c. 1415~1422 – c. March 1492) was an English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer. He was the first English person to work as a printer and the first person to introduce a printing press into England.
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Charles Reed MP FSA (1819 – March 25, 1881) was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament for Hackney and St Ives), Chairman of the London School Board, Director and Trustee of the original Abney Park Cemetery Joint Stock Company, Chairman of the Bunhill Fields
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The St Bride Library (also called St Bride Printing Library and associated with St Bride Institute and St Bride Foundation) is primarily a library in London devoted to printing, book arts, typography and graphic design.
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Adobe Systems’ division of typography is an innovator in font technology and design, Adobe was a forerunner in the development of PostScript Type 1 and Type 3 font formats and OpenType technology, as well as being an established digital type foundry.
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Adobe Systems Incorporated

Public (NASDAQ: ADBE )
Founded San Jose (1982)
Headquarters San Jose, California, U.S.

Key people Charles Geschke, Founder
John Warnock, Founder
Bruce Chizen, CEO
Shantanu Narayen, Pres.
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The International Typeface Corporation (ITC) is a type manufacturer founded in New York in 1970 by Aaron Burns, Herb Lubalin, and Edward Rondthaler. The company is one of the world's first foundries to have no history in metal cast types.
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Letraset is a company which manufactures sheets of artwork elements which can be transferred to artwork being prepared; see the article on screentone for details. The name Letraset was often used to refer generically to sheets of dry transferrable lettering of any brand.
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Bitstream Inc.

Public
Founded 1981
Headquarters Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Key people Anna M. Chagnon, President and CEO
Industry Type foundry
Employees 67 (2007)
Website bitstream.com

Bitstream Inc.
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Linotype can refer to:
  • Mergenthaler Linotype Company
  • Linotype machine

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Monotype Imaging, Inc is a typesetting and typeface design company (type foundry) responsible for many developments in printing technology — in particular the Monotype machine which was the first fully mechanical typesetter — and the design and production of typefaces
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American Type Founders (ATF) was created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, including Binny & Ronaldson, Boston Type Foundry, Central Type Foundry, Cincinnati Type Foundry, Dickinson Type Foundry, and Farmer, Little & Co.
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Berthold is a name long associated with type design. H. Berthold AG was one of the largest and most successful type foundries in the world for most of the modern typographic era.
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FontShop International (FSI) was founded in Berlin in 1989 by Erik Spiekermann and Joan Spiekermann, who were then husband and wife. FontShop is the original font reseller in digital type history.
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Hoefler & Frere-Jones is an influential type foundry in New York City, run by designers Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones. Founded in 1989 (as "The Hoefler Type Foundry,"), H&FJ develops fonts for both for the retail market and for individual clients.
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House Industries is a type foundry and design studio based in Yorklyn, Delaware.[1] The company was created in the 1990's in Wilmington, Delaware by co-founders Andy Cruz and Rich Roat.
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URW is the usual short form of the company URW++ Design & Development, located in Hamburg, Germany.

URW++ is a digital type foundry, i.e. they produce digital fonts and distribute and licence these.
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Blambot is the name of an online type foundry and is the alias of freeware and shareware computer font designer Nate Piekos. Blambot specializes in script and display typefaces for use as lettering in both print and online comics.
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Cape Arcona Type Foundry

privately-held
Founded 2002
Headquarters Germany

Key people Stefan Claudius, President
Thomas Schostok, King

Website www.cape-arcona.
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