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- "Een lettergieterij is een bedrijf waar losse loden letters worden gefabriceerd." [1]
- The collection typografic books and letter demos (letterproeven) of letter casters Tetterode [2] is one of the biggest in the world (17,000 works). It is maintained by the library of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Material cannot be borrowed, but it may be possible to photograph it on site.
- Joh. Enschedé is another famous Dutch letter caster. (Both companies still exist.)
- [About letter demos http://www.cultuurwijzer.nl/cultuurwijzer.nl/cultuurwijzer.nl/i000382.html]
Dutch typographers
- Jan van Krimpen (1892-1958), publisher of typographic magazine De Witte Mier.
- Charles Nypels (1895-1952)
- S.H. de Roos (1877-1962), first Dutch designer in 150 years to design a new typeface (in 1912)
- Jean François van Royen (1878-1942), his complete collection in Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum [3]