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unusual facts about Type foundry



Type Museum

Stephenson Blake & Company in their long trading history acquired many of the other famous-name English type foundries and these all now reside at the Type Museum.


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Cape Arcona Type Foundry

For the sake of political correctness the founders always stated that the Cape Arcona Type Foundry was not named after the destroyed luxury liner SS Cap Arcona (the ship was named after Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany).

FontShop International

After founding the first German reseller of typefaces FontShop in 1989, Joan Spiekermann, Erik Spiekermann, and Neville Brody started an independent type foundry just one year later.

Honey Barbara

Their music has been released by the Emigre type foundry; the album I-10 & W. AVE. was part of issue 60 of the magazine, along with a magazine featuring typographic projects.

Linotype

Mergenthaler Linotype Company, a US type foundry that produced the Linotype machine

Matthew Carter

It was through his father, Harry Carter, also a type designer, that Matthew Carter was given an internship at the Joh. Enschedé type foundry in the Netherlands.