4-769: Fonderie Typographique Française was a French type foundry . Founded in Paris in 1921 following the merger of the Turlot, Durey & Berthier, Renault & Marcou, Huart, Chaix, and Saling type foundries. In 1969 it moved to Champigny-sur-Marne and took the name "Société Nouvelle de la Fonderie Typographique Française". Sold in 1974 to the Fundición Tipográfica Neufville , in Barcelona These foundry types were produced by Fonderie Typographique Française: Type foundry A type foundry
8-508: A foundry. Type foundries may also provide custom type design services. 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 . Only after Caslon had established his Caslon foundry in Chiswell Street , did
12-555: 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
16-561: The City of London become a major centre for the industry, until the end of the 20th century 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 , the printer and type founders were in their heyday. The St Bride Printing Library in
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