Selected fonts and borders will be cast and promoted with specimens here on this website, and by notices posted to various Letterpress Printing online forums, Briar Press, and in the monthly bundle of the Amalgamated Printers Association. You will find a downloadable inventory of these in The Matrix Vault. Our holdings include almost all well-known faces and a good many antique and uncommon ones. We are fortunate to have brought together over 3,000 fonts of matrices from which to cast type, ranging from 6 to 48 point, and matrices for some 3,500 different borders and ornaments. You will find our type to be reasonably priced, because we want to preserve and promote letterpress printing, and keep new type within the reach of all printers. Skyline now offers for sale many type and border fonts, with new additions each month.
And in 2010 we were fortunate enough to acquire the complete matrix collection of the late Charles Broad’s famous Typefounders of Phoenix, consisting of over 50 revivals of 19th century type faces. We are both proud and humbled to be the de facto successors to multiple type foundries of historic note: included in our matrix library are fonts made and/or previously owned by American Type Founders, Perfection, Triangle, Neon, Empire, King, Stephenson-Blake, Detroit, Barco, Castcraft, Missouri-Central, Quaker City, and Los Angeles Type Foundries. Skyline opened in June, 2004, and is proudly carrying forward the ancient and esoteric craft of making metal printing type. All on the Skyline crew are competent letterpress printers, with combined experience of over 63 years, and together we own some 28 presses (11 of which are in the Skyline pressroom) and several thousand fonts of type. We know type, we use type, and we love type. With letterpress now enjoying an exuberant revival among fine printers, artists, and hobbyists, where can a printer go to get type? Where is the corresponding revival in typecasting? It’s here at Skyline Type Foundry, LLC. Ever since Johann Gutenberg and his associates began hand-casting individual metal letters half a millennium ago, the craft of typefounding has gone hand-in-hand with the Black Art of printing. The very word is enough to put a smile on the face of any letterpress printer. Reasonable cost consistent with a sustainable operation.” A Passion for Type. Welcome to Arizona’s Premier Type Foundry! Our Mission Statement “To preserve and perpetuate the ancient and esoteric craft of typefounding,Īnd to make new type available to the Letterpress Community at the lowest
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