Grafotechna
Type | Aktiengesellschaft |
---|---|
Industry | Type foundry |
Founded | 1951 |
Defunct | 1990 |
Headquarters | Prague, Czechoslovakia |
Grafotechna (Grafotechna n. p., Závod 5, Výroba písma, mosazných linek a matric) was a Czechoslovak type foundry, created in 1951. It ceased to exist after 1990. It was the only manufacturer of metal types in the former Czechoslovakia.
Among other things, it manufactured fonts designed by Czech type designers and Josef Týfa.
Typefaces[]
These foundry types were produced by Grafotechna:[1]
- Brno Z (1951, )
- Ceska Unciala (1945, )
- ()
- (1920)[2]
- Figural ()
- Garamond (1959, )
- ()
- Kolektiv (1952, , , Josef Týfa)
- Manuscript (1944-50, )
- Menhart (1938, ), originally Monotype, later Grafotechna.
- Monument (1950-52, )
- Tyfa (1959, Josef Týfa)
External links[]
- "Manuscript" font by Oldřich Menhart, 1946. Released in Czechoslovakia by Grafotechna
- Czechoslovak Typography
- History of Grafotechna (in Czech)
References[]
- ^ Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN 0-7137-1347-X, p. 2408-249
- ^ Jaspert (p.83) gives the date of 1920 for this type despite the foundry only coming into existence more than twenty years later. Perhaps this is a legacy type from one of the absorbed foundries.
Categories:
- Letterpress font foundries
- Cold type foundries
- Metal companies of the Czech Republic
- Manufacturing companies of Czechoslovakia
- Manufacturing companies based in Prague
- European company stubs