type founder

noun

1. a person engaged in the making of metallic types for printers.

type founder

noun

1. a person who casts metallic printer's type

Derived Forms

• type foundry, noun
• type founding, noun

Other Words From

• type founding noun
• typefoundry noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of type founder¹

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

It is the epitaph which Baskerville, the celebrated Birmingham printer and type founder, directed to be placed upon a tomb of masonry in the shape of a cone, and erected over his remains:— Stranger Beneath this cone, in unconsecrated ground, A friend to the liberties of mankind Directed his body to be inurned.

From Project Gutenberg

Describing the creation of a ligature combining g and y, one of many such ligatures on display in the show, she wrote, “What plenitude of forms — the slopes, polished like mirrors, the gentle inclines that safeguard a particular angle, the fragile but vigorous swelling curves — monumental, a thing of beauty: a type founder’s punch.”

From New York Times

Franklin had Didot, the master type founder, come to Passy to teach Ben how "to cast printing types."

From Project Gutenberg

When you buy the book, you pay the printer, the paper maker, the bookseller, the type founder, the miner who dug the earth, the machinist who made the press, and a great many other persons whose labor enters into the making of a book—you pay all these men for their labor; you give them money to help take care of their wives and children, their fathers and mothers.

From Project Gutenberg

Abel Buell of Connecticut, silver-smith, type founder and engraver. © 20Dec26; A967023.

From Project Gutenberg