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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • type foundry, noun
  • type founding, noun
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Other Words From

  • type founding noun
  • typefoundry noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of type founder1

First recorded in 1790–1800
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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.

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.”

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

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.

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

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