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Amsterdam Type foundry

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Industry
  
Type foundry

Headquarters
  
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Amsterdam Type foundry was a Dutch type foundry which contributed a number of original type designs early in the 20th century. It eventually became a division of Tetterode. On October 1, 2000, Tetterode transferred the rights for all their typefaces to Linotype.

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Foundry Type

These foundry types were produced by the Amsterdam Type foundry:

  • Aigrette, script
  • initials
  • Arsis
  • Atlas
  • light
  • normal
  • bold
  • Bristol (1929).
  • Bodoni light
  • Bodoni
  • Bodoni semi bold
  • Bodoni Bold
  • Carlton (1929), an in-line version of Bristol.
  • Choc (1964, Roger Excoffon) originally released by Fonderie Olive in 1955.
  • Columbia, originally cast in 1904 as Kolonial by the Woellmer Type Foundry, also cast as Buffalo by the H.C. Hansen Type Foundry of Boston.
  • Contura (1966, Dick Dooijes)
  • De Roos (1947, S.H. de Roos).
  • De Roos roman
  • De Roos italic
  • De Roos initials
  • Egmont (1933, S.H. de Roos), later copied by Intertype (1937).
  • Egmont
  • Egmont light roman & italic
  • Egmont bold
  • Egmont inline capitals
  • Egyptian Bold, a nineteenth century design.
  • Erasmus mediaeval
  • Erasmus mediaeval roman
  • Erasmus mediaeval italic
  • Erasmus mediaeval initials (2 series)
  • Excelsior, script
  • normal
  • light
  • semi bold
  • Garamont, based on the ATF design of 1917.
  • Gracia, script
  • Gravure (1912), a copy of G. Peignot et Fils' Moreau-le-Jeune.
  • series 1
  • series 2
  • Gravure open
  • Gravure decorative italic capitals
  • Grotesque
  • condensed light
  • condensed
  • bold
  • small bold
  • card grotesque caps light
  • card grotesque caps bold
  • Grotius
  • Hermes (1924), a tooled version of Caslon.
  • Hidalgo (1939, Stefan Schlesinger.
  • Hollandsche Mediaeval
  • Hollandsche Mediaeval roman
  • Hollandsche Mediaeval italic
  • Hollandsche Mediaeval semi bold
  • Hollandsche Mediaeval ornamented initials & initialen
  • Ideal
  • Iris
  • Impressum (1962, Baum + Bauer), originally cut for Stempel Type Foundry.
  • Juno
  • Libra, S.H. de Roos
  • normal
  • light
  • Nobel
  • light
  • bold
  • condensed
  • condensed bold
  • small capitals
  • small capitals light
  • inline capitals
  • Old Dutch
  • Pressa, originally cut by Intertype as Ideal News.
  • Romaans (Riegerl Weissenborn), based upon Schelter & Giesecke's Romanisch and later copied as Intertype's Lormier.
  • Reiner script
  • Rondo, script
  • normal
  • bold
  • Savoy
  • Simplex
  • normal
  • semi bold
  • Studio
  • Typewriter
  • Visite
  • Cold Type

    These designs were produced by the Amsterdam Type foundry for photocomposition:

  • Adonis (1971, Andrea Cretton), later cast in metal by Stephenson Blake.
  • References

    Amsterdam Type foundry Wikipedia


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