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At The Foundry Types, we’re deeply passionate about all aspects of design, in particular, typography and type design. Inspired by unexpected objects; a stamp, a street sign, a quirky printout error or just a great piece of design – so here we blog about them.

The London Fire Brigade typeface

Architype Ballmer

Happy Birthday Theo Ballmer

Architype van Doesburg

Happy Birthday Theo van Doesburg

Paul Renner

Happy Birthday Paul Renner

Happy Birthday Kurt Schwitters 20.06.1887

Happy Birthday Kurt Schwitters

Dutch Design Week graphics using ‘Fernhout’ courtesy of Thonik.

Fernhout – the new typeface for the Dutch Design Week

David and Freda at London Paddington

Codex 3: The Journal of Letterforms / Summer 2013. Part 3 of 3

Freda speaking at Typo Talks London 2012

Codex 3: The Journal of Letterforms / Summer 2013. Part 2 of 3

Freda Sack, Photo courtesy of Jason Wen © 2012.

Codex 3: The Journal of Letterforms / Summer 2013. Part 1 of 3

Fenner Paper Diary 2021 cover displaying Foundry Tiento.

Fenner Paper Diary 2021 in conjunction with the ISTD.

Happy Birthday Wim Crouwel Foundry Types

Happy Birthday Wim Crouwel

T J Boulting & Sons, a Scottish Arts & Crafts influenced building

The Type of Two Cities: London and Amsterdam

The Cooper Union

Pentagram designed signage and environmental graphics for the school’s new academic building, using Foundry Gridnik.

Eye 11 magazine cover

From Bauhaus to font house

Architype is a new series of Modernist typefaces. Is their reissue as simple as it sounds?