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A type foundry is a company that designs or distributes typefaces. Originally, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and Monotype machines designed to be printed on 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 another foundry. Type foundries may also provide custom type design services. In England, type foundries began in 1476, when William Caxton introduced the printing press. Thereafter the City of London became a major centre for the industry, until recent times 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 were in their heyday. The St Bride Printing Library in the City of London encourages wider public interest in the remarkable history of typefounding for the printed book and newspaper. ==Corporate type foundries== * Adobe Type, a division of Adobe Sys Inc. * Apple Inc. * Letraset * Monotype Imaging * * Ascender Corporation a subsidiary of Monotype Imaging * * Bitstream a subsidiary of Monotype Imaging * * FontShop a subsidiary of Monotype Imaging, Located in Germany * * International Typeface Corporation (ITC) a subsidiary of Monotype Imaging * * Linotype GmbH a subsidiary of Monotype Imaging, Located in Germany 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Type foundry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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