Stempel Type Foundry
The D. Stempel AG was a German type foundry. In addition to companies such as the H. Berthold AG, the Bauer foundry and the foundry Gebr Klingspor it was one of the major font houses of the 20th century.
History
The company was founded on 15 January 1895 by David Stamp ( 1869-1927 ) in Frankfurt am Main as a general partnership ( OHG ). She busied herself for the time being with the cast of exclusion and filling material and the production of rolled and ground rollers for letterpress printing needs. 1898 will punch David Schwager, the engineer Wilhelm Cunz ( 1869-1951 ), as well as the type founder Peter Scondo ( 1854-1908 ) partners. In the same year the foundry Juxberg -Rust is taken from Offenbach, thus begins the production of writings. There shall be established for the foundry handstamp tailoring, home printing, bookbinding and its own machinery factory for the manufacture of machinery and auxiliary equipment.
1900 stamp font exclusive supplier for the products sold by the German company Linotype matrices for the Linotype typesetting and casting machine. By 1974, however, almost all fonts for hand composition appear.
Of the intermediary step of a limited liability company ( GmbH) in 1901, the company is converted into a corporation in 1905.
Several acquisitions, such as 1919, the holdings of the type foundry W. Drugulin, the Stempel AG bring many valuable Originalmatrizen past centuries. For these stocks classics are saved into modernity in the following years under careful adjustment again. For such a new edition as close to the original include those based on Claude Garamond Print and Andreas Vistula writings of the Garamond family, which appear as Stempel Garamond from 1925 by D. Stempel AG. 1935-1937 published six cuts Friedrich Heinrichsens Cracked Grotesque Gothenburg.
1941, the Berlin-based Mergenthaler typesetting machines -Fabrik GmbH (a subsidiary of Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, USA) majority owner.
In the years since 1950 some of the most important writings Hermann Zapf appear. For 1950, the Palatino and Gilgen Gart, 1952 Virtuosa and Melior, 1953, the font sapphire jewelry and in 1958 the classic Optima. For example, with the Diotima group from 1953 published Zapf's wife Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse with stamp.
In 1954, D. Stempel AG belonging through the acquisition of H. Berthold AG shares majority owner of the Haas type foundry. The combination of punches and Haas goes back to 1927, the year of participation of the D. Stempel AG at the Haas type foundry.
Starting in 1917 with the agreement of a community of interest with Gebr Klingspor extended stamp his involvement in the following years at Klingspor more and more. 1956, the rest of the company and its signature program is adopted.
Meanwhile, a classic and one of the most common fonts will appear in the 1961 D. Stempel AG Helvetica. In Haas as Neue Haas Grotesk designed by Max Miedinger and sold worldwide after the takeover by D. Stempel AG.
1967 will be presented with Jan Tschichold which some still referred to as ideal-typical Garamond Sabon. It is a collaborative work of D. Stempel, Linotype GmbH and Monotype as the German printer demanded a script that runs without modification on both types of jigs.
1968 Start of production for Linotype font support - phototypesetting machines and thus move to a new font technology. In the same year Hans Eduard Meier's syntax, which began with the work on this font family in 1955 appears.
1974 appears last hand typeface with the Present stamp. In 1977, the production of own phototypesetting equipment such as the stamp Typomatic and digital fonts for example, the Linotype CRtronic. This may not happen until later to some as the rest of the industry. A year later, the type casting department of Berthold & stamp is passed to Haas. In 1983, the production of matrices for the Linotype typesetting machine is set.
Photo and computer set could significantly shrink the market for metal typefaces. 1985, the resolution of the D. Stempel AG is decided by the majority owner of Linotype GmbH and the remaining font support manufacturing (for the photo set) goes on in it. 1986 pull the machinery and other equipment of the type foundry of Frankfurt to Darmstadt in the House of Industry. The distribution of metal typefaces is now taken over by the font Stempel Service GmbH. By restructuring the company writing service D. Stempel GmbH no writings can be supplied at present, however; delivery in 2011 will begin again at about the end of November. The digital fonts are sold through Linotype GmbH in Bad Homburg.