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Amsterdam Type Foundry, the Glossary

Index Amsterdam Type Foundry

The Amsterdam Type Foundry (Lettergieterij Amsterdam) was a type foundry based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 32 relations: American Type Founders, Amsterdam, Caslon, Choc (typeface), City, Compaq Contura, Dick Dooijes, Fonderie Olive, G. Peignot et Fils, Garamond, Georges Peignot, Haarlem, Intertype Corporation, Joh. Enschedé, Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Movable type, MyFonts, Netherlands, Nobel (typeface), Phototypesetting, Pressa, Roger Excoffon, S.H. de Roos, Sans-serif, Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry, Stempel Type Foundry, Stephenson Blake, Tetterode, Type foundry, Walter Baum, Woellmer Type Foundry.

  2. Dutch companies established in 1851
  3. Letterpress font foundries of the Netherlands
  4. Manufacturing companies based in Amsterdam

American Type Founders

American Type Founders (ATF) Co.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.

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Caslon

Caslon is the name given to serif typefaces designed by William Caslon I (c. 1692–1766) in London, or inspired by his work.

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Choc (typeface)

Choc (French: "shock") is a display script typeface designed by Roger Excoffon in 1955.

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City

A city is a human settlement of a notable size.

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Compaq Contura

The Contura is a line of notebook-sized laptops produced by Compaq from 1992 to 1996.

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Dick Dooijes

Dick Dooijes (May 6, 1909 – June 20, 1998) was a Dutch typeface designer.

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Fonderie Olive

The Fonderie Olive, in English, Olive Foundry, was a small but high-profile type foundry located in Marseille, France.

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G. Peignot et Fils

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Garamond

Garamond is a group of many serif typefaces, named for sixteenth-century Parisian engraver Claude Garamond, generally spelled as Garamont in his lifetime.

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Georges Peignot

Georges Louis Jean Baptiste Peignot (June 24, 1872, Paris – September 28, 1915, Givenchy-en-Gohelle) was a French type designer, type founder, and manager of the G. Peignot & Fils foundry until his death in combat during World War I. The father of four children (including poet Colette Peignot, under her alias Laure), under his leadership the G.

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Haarlem

Haarlem (predecessor of Harlem in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands.

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Intertype Corporation

The Intertype Corporation produced the Intertype, a hot metal typesetting machine closely resembling the Linotype, and using the same matrices as the Linotype.

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Joh. Enschedé

Royal Joh. Amsterdam Type Foundry and Joh. Enschedé are Letterpress font foundries of the Netherlands.

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Konrad Friedrich Bauer

Konrad Friedrich Bauer (9 December 1903 – 17 March 1970) was a German type designer who, though not related to founder Johann Christian Bauer, was head of the art department for the Bauer Type Foundry from 1928 until his retirement in 1968.

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Mergenthaler Linotype Company

The Mergenthaler Linotype Company is a corporation founded in the United States in 1886 to market the Linotype machine, a system to cast metal type in lines (linecaster) invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler.

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Movable type

Movable type (US English; moveable type in British English) is the system and technology of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document (usually individual alphanumeric characters or punctuation marks) usually on the medium of paper.

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MyFonts

MyFonts is a digital fonts distributor, based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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Nobel (typeface)

Nobel is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Sjoerd Henrik de Roos (1877–1962) and Dick Dooijes (1909–1998) in the period 1929–1935 for the Amsterdam Type foundry). Capitalizing upon Lettergieterij Amsterdam's substantial financial interest in the Berlin typefoundry H. Berthold AG, de Roos decided as a Dutch competitor to Futura to license the Berthold foundry's geometric Berthold Grotesk, change some characters and sell it in the Netherlands under this name.

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Phototypesetting

Phototypesetting is a method of setting type which uses photography to make columns of type on a scroll of photographic paper.

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Pressa

Pressa was an International Press Exhibition held in Cologne between May and October, 1928.

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Roger Excoffon

Roger Excoffon (7 September 1910 – 30 May 1983) was a French typeface designer and graphic designer.

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S.H. de Roos

Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos (14 September 1877 – 3 April 1962), better known as S. H. de Roos, was a Dutch type designer, book cover designer and artist.

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Sans-serif

In typography and lettering, a sans-serif, sans serif, gothic, or simply sans letterform is one that does not have extending features called "serifs" at the end of strokes.

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Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry

J.G. Schelter & Giesecke was a German type foundry and manufacturer of printing presses started 1819 in Leipzig by punchcutter Johann Schelter and typefounder Christian Friedrich Giesecke (1793-1850).

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Stempel Type Foundry

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Stephenson Blake

Stephenson Blake is an engineering company based in Sheffield, England.

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Tetterode

Tetterode is a complex of buildings in Amsterdam-West in the Netherlands.

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Type foundry

A type foundry is a company that designs or distributes typefaces.

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Walter Baum

Walter Baum (23 May 1921 – 8 March 2007) was a German type designer, graphic artist and teacher.

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Woellmer Type Foundry

The Wöllmer Type Foundry was founded by black-letter and script type designer Wilhelm Wöllmer.

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See also

Dutch companies established in 1851

  • Amsterdam Type Foundry

Letterpress font foundries of the Netherlands

Manufacturing companies based in Amsterdam

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Type_Foundry

Also known as Bristol (typeface), Carlton (typeface), Lettergieterij Amsterdam, Pressa (typeface).