| Welcome to The Bell Type and Rule web-sight. Here at Bell Type we make hand set metal foundry type fonts of letters for Hot Foil Stamping and Letterpress Printing. Over the years, our type has been and continues to print on a plethora of items... Hot Stamping Our Foundry Type is use in a verity of hot stamping machines to, imprint pencils, make imprinted ribbon and even gold stamp the brim of hats. Our foundry Type is used in Hot stamp machines such as Kingsley, Kwikprint, Gold-Magic, Howard Personalizer, Veach, Goldsmith, Blockmaster and Franklin including the old hat machines, to name just a few. Letterpress For the letterpress arts, our type continues to be used in Chandler and Price, Kluge, Heidelberg, Vandercook and many other types of letterpress equipment. We provide beautiful foundry type for letterpress printing of letterpress invitations and letterpress cards. Book Binding and Scrap Books The book binding trade and those doing scrap books use our type for imprinting the covers and spines of books. We do Hot Stamping and Letterpress Printing We have many of the foil stamping and antique letterpress machines in our shop. By using the equipment we have become familiar with how the type reacts to being printed on numerous materials (sub-straights). We would be happy to share our experiences with you in the hope it will make your printing experience a rewarding one. Metal Foundry Type Letters We have endeavored to make your printing experience a rewarding one by passing on our knowledge of press room techniques used to produce only the finest printed job. We have sorted the metal foundry type fonts into a carefully selected showing. The type fonts or letters we are showing under Type Fonts is a culmination of many years of finding out what works best for foil stamping and letterpress. Please note that there are six pages of showings under the tab labeled Type Fonts. When you review the showings of our type Faces under Type Fonts, you will find an array of fonts that have proven very usable, by many. We have included some important technical information under the heading About Foundry Type. This section gives good information on what type faces have been used for best results and some other terms that we hope will make your hot stamping and letterpress printing proceed easier. We have may ornaments, from 14 to 72 point. Some of the ornaments are on 18 point body for use with 18 point foundry type and some small 14 point dies for use on small ribbon imprinting jobs. For those doing bible printing you will find a nice selection of religious ornaments. Those doing scrap books will enjoy many of the larger ornaments for use when doing there album imprinting. Please review our Ornaments section to see our current showing. Also contact us for all you Hot Stamping Supplies. Ludlow We show just a very few of the over 700 Ludlow fonts we have for casting metal lines or as it is known in the industry Hot Type or Ludlow slugs. When you need just one line of 72pt type set or a entire job here this where to come. We have a lot of great faces so you can get that one large line (ie 72pt) you want to use with your 18 point hand set font and you don't have to buy the entire font of 72 pt type to complete your book binding, scrap book or letterpress printing job. This saves you money and opens the door for creativity in your designs. Leads and Slugs Leads and slugs are, strip of spacing material, made of type metal that are used for line spacing. We cast Leads and Slugs in several thicknesses ranging from 2 to 36 point. Those less than 6 points are called leads. Those from 6 to 18 point are called slugs. You can find more information about Leads and Slugs under the About Type section, toward the bottom of the page. We still can manufacture many of the hundreds of fonts we have produced over the past 80 years; so, if you don't see what you are looking for please Contact Bell Type We hope you enjoy your time on this sight. We love Letterpress and hot foil stamping and hope we have sparked an interest in you to learn more about these arts. |
| Manufacturers of Hand Set Metal Foundry Type Fonts of Letters for Hot Foil Stamping and Letterpress Printing |
| Foundry Type for Letterpress Printing, Letterpress Invitations, Letterpress Cards |
| Foundry Type for Foil Stamping, Hot Stamping, Imprinting Book Binding & Scrap Books |
| A Tribute to our friend Don Winter & Los Angeles TYPE Founders, Inc. ....Click on the photo.... |
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