Stempel Type Foundry

Many important font designers worked for the Stempel foundry, including Hans Bohn, Warren Chappell, F. H. Ehmcke, Friedrich Heinrichsen, Hanns Th.

Hoyer, F. W. Kleukens, Erich Meyer, Hans Möhring, Hiero Rhode, Wilhelm Schwerdtner, Herbert Thannhaeuser, Martin Wilke, Rudolf Wolf, Victor Hammer, Hermann Zapf, and Gudrun Zapf von Hesse.

Stempel closed down in 1986, donating all of its type and equipment to the Darmstadt University of Technology.

Weber, Fonderie Olive, and the Nebiolo foundry and continues to cast their types today.

[3] Nicolas Kis's original matrices for the typeface Janson have been held by Stempel since 1919.