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Continental Type Founders Association

Field	Value
name	Continental Type Founders Association
type	Defunct
foundation	1925
founder	Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr.
location	New York City
key_people	Melbert Cary, owner, founder, Doug McMurtrie, vice-president (1925), Frederic Goudy vice-president (1927)
industry	Type foundry

Continental Type Founders Association was an American type foundry founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by imitating many of the more popular faces. A.T.F.'s Paramount and Monotype's Sans Serif series are two examples of this.

Foundries represented

The following foundries were represented:

W.H. Caslon, Ltd., England
- Caslon Old Face + Italic
Deberny & Peignot, France
- Astrée + Italic (1921, Robert Girard)
- Sphinx + Italic + Inline (1925, M. Deberny)
- Sylvan (1924, Bernard Naudin), known in France as Champlevé.
- Bifur (1929, A.M. Cassandre)
Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, the Netherlands (listed as "Holland" in the Continental catalog)
- Lutetia + Italic (1925, Jan van Krimpen)
Fundiciòn Richard Gans, Spain
- Gloria
- Greco Bold + Italic + Adornado (1925)
Gebr. Klingspor, Germany
- Kabel + Light Italic + Bold (1927-29, Rudolf Koch)
- Zeppelin (1927-29, Koch)
- Neuland + Inline (1923, Koch)
- Eve + Italic + Heavy + Heavy Italic (1922, Koch), also known as Koch Antiqua and Locarno
- Narcissus (1923, W. Tiemann)
Ludwig & Mayer, Germany
- Nicolas Cochin + Bold
- La Mercure (an inline version of Cochin)
- Erbar (Jakob Erbar)
R.H. Stevens & Co., England
D. Stempel A.G., Germany
- Girder (1929, Rudolf Wolf), known in Germany as Memphis.
- Metropolis + Bold (1929, Willy Schwerdtner)
H. Berthold AG, Germany
- City (1930, George Trump), not sold in US until 1936.
Genzsch & Heyse, A.G., Germany
J.G. Schelter & Giesecke, Germany
Società Nebiolo, Italy
Stephenson Blake & Co., England

Beginning in 1927 Continental also distributed faces cast by Frederic Goudy, and two faces for Doug McMurtrie. At first Goudy's type was cast at his own Village Letter Foundry, but after 1929 these were cast by the New England Foundry. Despite imports being virtually cut-off during the war years, Continental was still issuing Goudy's types as late as 1944 and may have continued functioning even later.

References

Specimen Book of Continental Types, Continental Type Founders Association, N.Y.C., 1929.
MacGrew, Mac, American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century, Oak Knoll Books, New Castle Delaware, 1993, .
‘‘‘Heller, Steven, Philip B. Meggs, Texts on type: critical writings on typography, Allworth Press, N.Y.C., 2001.

References

''Specimen Book of Continental Types,'' Continental Type Founders Association, N.Y.C., 1929.

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