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Type foundry
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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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- Adobe Type, a division of Adobe Systems Inc.
- International Typeface Corporation (ITC)
- Letraset
- Bitstream Inc.
- Linotype
- Monotype Corporation
- American Type Founders (Kingsley/ATF)
- Ascender Corporation
- Berthold
- Elsner+Flake
- Emigre
- Font Bureau
- FontFont, a division of FontShop International
- Hoefler & Frere-Jones (H&FJ)
- House Industries
- Paratype
- T26
- URW++ (URW)
- Astygmatic One-Eye
- Blambot
- Cape Arcona Type Foundry
- Chank Diesel
- Characters Font Foundry
- Crazy diamond design
- Dalton Maag
- DSType
- Emtype Foundry
- Fontcraft
- Fonthead Design
- Fontosaurus
- Fountain.nu
- The Font Diner
- JY&A Fonts
- insigne Design
- Larabie Fonts/Typodermic
- OurType
- P22 type foundry
- Psy/Ops
- Scriptorium Fonts
- SelfBuild Type Foundry
- Stone Type Foundry
- Storm Type Foundry
- Sudtipos
- The Type Fetish
- Typeco
- Typotheque
- Zangofonts
- WC Fonts
- American Type Founders
- Barnhart Brothers & Spindler
- Charles Reed & Sons
- Grafotechna
- Pouchée and Jennings
- Font Mesa (remastered)
- Fonts.com (Monotype Corporation)
- FontHaus
- FontShop
- MyFonts
- Phil's Fonts
- type.co.uk (Fontworks UK Ltd)
- Veer
- Creativepro.com – Commercial Foundries list
- Microsoft Typography – All foundries and font related product vendors
- Typophile: Foundries list
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| Page | Pagination · Recto and verso · Margin · Column · Canons of page construction · Pull quote |  |
| Paragraph | Widows and orphans · Leading · River · Baseline · Median · Alignment · Justification | |
| Character | Ligature · Letter-spacing · Kerning · Majuscule · Minuscule · Initial · x-height · Ascender · Descender · Diacritics · Counter · Subscript and superscript | |
| Style | Serif · Italic · Slab serif · Sans-serif · Blackletter · Script · Dingbat | |
| Punctuation | Hanging punctuation · Hyphenation · Curly quotes · En dash · Em dash | |
| Typesetting | Type design · Type foundry · Movable type · Calligraphy · Phototypesetting · Letterpress · Typeface · Font · Computer font · Point · Pica · Cicero · Agate · Em · En · Lorem ipsum · Hamburgefonts · Punchcutting · Pangram | |
| Digital typography | Font formats · Typesetting software · Character encoding · Rasterization · Hinting | |
