1. a person or company that designs and manufactures metal type for printing
Usage: historical; printing

Examples

• The typefounder created beautiful letterforms for the new printing press.
• Many typefounders went out of business when digital typography emerged.
• The famous typefounder produced fonts used in newspapers across the country.
• She studied the work of 18th-century typefounders to understand classical typography.
• The typefounder’s workshop contained molds for casting individual letters.
• Before computers, every typefounder had to carefully craft each character by hand.