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Tetterode Nederland (or: Lettergieterij Amsterdam)

Aka Type Foundry Amsterdam, and Lettergieterij Amsterdam voorheen Tetterode, this influential foundry in the Netherlands operated from 1851 until 1988. A lot of the material about Tetterode can now be found at the University of Amsterdam. Its type designers included, most famously:

• Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos (from 1907). Lettergieterij Amsterdam had the greatest success with the Hollandsche Mediaeval and other designs by De Roos. He also drew several foreign typefaces. De Roos edited Berthold Grotesk into the best-selling Nobel (1929) and released Libra in 1938. He also designed materials such as ornaments, initials and vignettes.
• Dick Dooijes (from 1926). Dooijes certainly made his best work with the Lectura (1969), a classic text type that was created in consultation with aesthetic consultant G. W. Ovink. He is also well known for Mercator (1959) which was known as "the Dutch Helvetica".
• Leonard H. D. Smit (from 1949). He designed the script typeface Amazone (1958).
• Other type designers included Imre Reiner (Reiner Script, 1951), Walter H. McKay (Columbia, 1956), Henri Friedlaender (the Hebrew face Hadassah, 1958), José Mendoza y Almeida (Pascal, 1961), Gerry Powell (Arsis, 1938, a copy of ATF's Onyx, 1937), Jan Tschichold, Georg Salter, Stefan Schlesinger and Henk Krijger.

Typefaces not mentioned above include Batak (1855), Gracia (1927, script face), Hercules (1926---a fat upright scriptish typeface with bunny ears, digitized in 2011 by Nick Curtis as Herkimer Bunrab NF), Orator and Promotor.

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