Amsterdam Type foundry

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.^[1]

Typefaces

Foundry Type

These foundry types were produced by the Amsterdam Type foundry:^[2]

• Bristol (1929).
  • 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).
• Egmont (1933, S. H. De Roos), later copied by Intertype (1937).
• Egyptian Bold, a nineteenth century design.
• Garamond, based on the ATF design of 1917.
• Gravure (1912), a copy of Deberny & Peignot's Moreau-le-Jeune.
• Hermes (1924), a tooled version of Caslon.
• Gravure (1912), a copy of Deberny & Peignot's Moreau-le-Jeune.
• Hidalgo (1939, Stefan Schlesinger.
• Impressum (1962, Baum + Bauer), originally cut for Stempel Type Foundry.
• Juno
• Pressa, originally cut by Intertype as Ideal News.
• Romaans (Riegerl Weissenborn), based upon Schelter & Giesecke's Romanisch and later copied as Intertype's Lormier.

Cold Type

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

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

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