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The Letterfoundry of Michael & Winifred Bixler [Michael Bixler]

The Letterfoundry of Michael & Winifred Bixler in Skaneateles, NY has been devoted to the book arts, particularly the craft of fine letterpress printing, metal type founding, and traditional book typography, since 1965. Michael Bixler studiede at Rochester Institute of Technology. The Bixlers are known for their quality and ongoing preservation of the craft of typecasting. Some of its types are listed here.

Their catalog of metal typefaces as of 2007: Albertus (+Titling), Baskerville, Bell, Bembo (+Bold, +Titling), Blado, Castellar, Centaur & Arrighi, Dante (+Titling), Ehrhardt, Fairbank Bembo Italic Condensed, Fournier, Garamond, Gill Sans, Joanna, Lombardic Capitals, Lutetia, Octavian, Old English, Perpetua (+Titling), Plantin, Poliphilus (+Titling), Spectrum, Sachsenwald, Univers, Van Dijck, Walbaum.

Michael Bixler designed the metal typeface Bixler Roman in 1968. Matrices were cut in Japan and the typeface was cast privately.

Bixler issued the blackletter metal typeface family Sachsenwald which is modeled after Berthold Wolpe's Sachsenwald (1936-1937; formerly known as Bismarck Script).

In 2020, the Bixlers and P22 jointly published the ornamental typeface LTC Bixler Ornaments, and in 2021, they added LTC Bixler Ornaments Two. The digital versions are due to Terry Wüdenbachs.

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