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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.

Fenner Paper Diary 2021 cover displaying Foundry Tiento.

Fenner Paper Diary 2021 in conjunction with the ISTD.

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.

From Bauhaus to font house

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

Stuart de Rozario – British type designer, graphic designer and typographer

Stuart de Rozario is an English a type designer, graphic designer and typographer and is one of the principals of the new partnership at The Foundry Types from 2020.

Freda speaking at Typo Talks London 2012

Freda Sack – British type designer and typographer

Freda Sack (1951–2019), a British type designer and typographer, one of the principals of The Foundry type design partnership. Freda also designed fonts included in the Letraset, ITC, and Linotype libraries earlier in her career.

David Quay – Graphic designer, type designer, typographer and teacher

David Quay is one of the principals of The Foundry type design partnership. He is a graphic designer, type designer, typographer and teacher, originally from London now resident in The Netherlands. He has also designed fonts for Letraset, ITC, and Berthold AG.