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A type foundry is a company that designs or distributes typefaces. Before digital typography, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces for hand typesetting, and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and Monotype, for 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 a foundry. Type foundries may also provide custom type design services.
England
In England, type foundries began in 1476, when William Caxton introduced the printing press, importing at least some of the type that he used in printing. Until William Caslon (1692–1766), English type generally had a poor reputation so the best type was imported from Holland. located in New York City
Large form
- Berthold Type Foundry
- Elsner+Flake
- Emigre
- Font Bureau
- House Industries
- Neufville Typefoundry (Fundición Tipográfica Neufville)
Independent
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- Blambot
- Chank Diesel
- Comicraft
- Dalton Maag
- Darden Studio
- Larabie Fonts/Typodermic
- Mark Simonson Studio
- Parachute
- P22 Type Foundry
- Sandoll Communications
- Scriptorium Fonts
- Typofonderie / formerly
- Typotheque
Defunct
- American Type Founders
- Barnhart Brothers & Spindler
- Bauer Type
- Binny & Ronaldson
- Caslon Type Foundry
- Charles Reed & Sons
- Deberny & Peignot
- Grafotechna
- Inland Type Foundry
- Louis Pouchée
- Stephenson Blake
- VEB Typoart