Type Founding

What is it?

Manufacturer of lead type.

Hand-picked Links

 • Aimee Dozois: Making Type by Hand
 • ATypI: Jim Rimmer casts 48pt ATypI keepsake
 • 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 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 Edmund Fry Joseph Fry Johann Fust G Nicholas Gando Frederic W. Goudy Johann Gutenberg

H Wilhelm Haas the elder Wilhelm Haas the younger Heinrich Wilhelm Hoffmeister J Joseph Jackson Jean Jannon Anton Janson Nicolas Jenson M Giovanni 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