Grafotechna

Grafotechna
Company 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 Oldřich Menhart and Josef Týfa.

Typefaces

These foundry types were produced by Grafotechna:^[1]

Brno Z (1951, Jan Rambousek)
Ceska Unciala (1945, Oldřich Menhart)
Drynkov (K. Drynkov)
Empiriana (1920)^[2]
Figural (Oldřich Menhart)
Garamond (1959, Stanislav Marso)
Kalab (Method Kalab)
Kolektiv (1952, S. Duda, K. Misek, Josef Týfa)
Manuscript (1944-50, Oldřich Menhart)
Menhart (1938, Oldřich Menhart), originally Monotype, later Grafotechna.
Monument (1950-52, Oldřich Menhart)
Tyfa (1959, Josef Týfa)

External links

"Manuscript" font by Oldřich Menhart, 1946. Released in Czechoslovakia by Grafotechna
Czechoslovak Typography
History of Grafotechna (in Czech)^{[permanent dead link]}

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.