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Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
And the funny thing is, as type designers and digital font developers (or type founders if you will), we are not even creating anything physical. We are dealing purely in information. When we make a …1 -
Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
@"Scott-Martin Kosofsky" : Right, but, for example, VGC and Alphabet Innovations made (manufactured) fonts for headline setting machines, but they never called themselves type founders. My …5 -
Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
Sure, but what about the people that made the typefaces/fonts that the typesetters used (e.g., ITC, VGC, etc.)? I'd bet if you perused back issues of U&lc. from the '70s you would only …3 -
Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
It's interesting, I'm pretty sure that nobody in the phototype/cold type days called themselves a foundry. My recollection is that use of the word in relation to making type seemed to fade …6 -
Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
I don't mind digital type people using the word foundry, although it seems a little pretentious. Language evolves. Words get their meaning from how people see fit to use them, not from the dicti…6
