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Definition of Type founder

Type founder
1 American 9 Bourgeois [bar] [bar] 11/2 German [bar] 2 Saxon 10 Long Primer [bar] [bar] 21/2 Norse [bar] 3 Brilliant 11 Small Pica [bar] [bar] 31/2 Ruby 12 Pica [bar] [bar] 4 Excelsior [bar] 41/2 Diamond 14 English [bar] [bar] 5 Pearl 16 Columbian [bar] [bar] 51/2 Agate [bar] 6 Nonpareil 18 Great Primer [bar] [bar] 7 Minion [bar] 8 Brevier 20 Paragon [bar] [bar] Diagram of the "points" by which sizes of Type are graduated in the "Point System". Type founder, one who casts or manufacture type. Type foundry, Type foundery, a place for the manufacture of type. Type metal, an alloy used in making type, stereotype plates, etc., and in backing up electrotype plates. It consists essentially of lead and antimony, often with a little tin, nickel, or copper. Type wheel, a wheel having raised letters or characters on its periphery, and used in typewriters, printing telegraphs, etc. Unity of type (Biol.), that fundamental agreement in structure which is seen in organic beings of the same class, and is quite independent of their habits of life. --Darwin.

Meaning of Type founder from wikipedia

- American Type Founders (ATF) Co. was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85 percent of all type manufactured...
- an English type-founder and chocolate maker, founding the family chocolate company that would later become J. S. Fry & Sons, and founder of the Bristol...
- allows scientists to roughly estimate the age of the mutation. The founder effect is a type of genetic drift, occurring when a small group in a po****tion...
- and type founders were in their heyday. The St Bride Printing Library in the City of London encourages wider public interest in the history of type founding...
- American Type Founders was the largest producer of foundry type in the world, not only of in-house designs, but also from designs that came from merged...
- became an eminent stereotyper and type-founder in Philadelphia and one of the most extensive and successful type-founders in the United States. Lawrence...
- other type of organization. If there are multiple founders, each can be referred to as a co-founder. If the organization is a business, the founder is usually...
- Grammar describes the transition away from the use of the long s among type founders and printers in its list of available sorts: The introduction of the...
- The founder crops or primary domesticates are a group of flowering plants that were domesticated by early farming communities in Southwest Asia and went...
- Continental Type Founders ****ociation was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries...