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Type Founding



What is it?

Manufacturer of lead type.


Hand-picked Links

 • Aimee Dozois: Making Type by Hand
 • Swiss Museum for Paper, Writing and Printing
 • Typefoundry blog: The materials of typefounding


People in the field of Type Founding

We know of 67 people who work in this field:

A
Richard Austin

B
Johann Christian Bauer
Guillaume le Bé
Theophile Beaudoire
John Bell
Alexandre de Berny
Robert Besley
Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf
David Bruce
David Bruce, Jr.
George Bruce

C
Dan Carr
William Caslon I
William Caslon II
William Caslon III
William Caslon IV

D
John Day
Samuel Nelson Dickinson
"Didot jeune" Didot
Firmin Didot
Henri Didot
Pierre Didot
Christoffel van Dijck

F
John Fell
Julia Ferrari
Vincent Figgins
Jean Claude Fournier
Jean Pierre Fournier l'ainé
Pierre Simon Fournier le jeune
Edmund Fry
Joseph Fry
Johann Fust

G
Nicholas Gando
Frederic W. Goudy
Johann Gutenberg
H
Wilhelm Haas the elder
Wilhelm Haas the younger
Heinrich Hoffmeister

J
Joseph Jackson
Jean Jannon
Anton Janson
Nicolas Jenson

M
Giovanni (Hans) Mardersteig
William Martin
Robert Hunter Middleton
William Miller
Molé-le-Jeune

N
R. Stanley Nelson
Friedrich Nies

P
Charles Peignot
Georges Peignot
Gustave Peignot
Eudald Pradell

R
Theo Rehak
Walter Richard
Jim Rimmer
Jacques-François Rosart

S
Jacques Sabon
Peter Schoeffer
John Stephenson

T
Robert Thorne
William Thorowgood
Charles Tuleu

U
Johann Friedrich Unger

W
Justus Erich Walbaum
Emery Walker
Alexander Wilson


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