Post #1693833

2026-03-15 23:18 UTC

Can anyone clarify the relationship between The Type Founders and the foundries they own? Is “own” the correct term here? Do they own different percentages of these foundries? Are they investing funds into these foundries? The Type Founders is also owned by a private equity firm, right? Does anyone remember which one? The organization feels so shrouded in mystery to me and am trying to understand it better.

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@kupfers@mastodon.social 2026-03-16 08:27

@morningtype I thought they only buy font IP and represent that then (new licenses, further development, license enforcement etc).

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@kentlew@typo.social 2026-03-16 15:37

@morningtype According to some previous discussion, the PE investor for TTF is Eagle Private Capital. https://typo.social/@frerejonestype/111155789846702680 Or “was”? I no longer see TTF listed in their portfolio. I do vaguely recall seeing the listing there previously. So I don’t know if that signals any meaningful change. 🤷‍♂️ You should reach out to Sam Berlow if you want to try to get direct answers.

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@jectives@typo.social 2026-03-17 21:03

@morningtype When Black Foundry sold their IP to TTF, I interviewed Jérémie Hornus and this was his reply to a similar question I asked him: "The Black Foundry brands now belongs to TTF, they will maintain the font collection, keeping it alive and also make it grow and expand (some WIP project, scripts extensions etc.). Black Foundry as a company will not exist in the near future but it’s font collection will, and may keep evolving too (for example there are a few ‘alpha’ fonts that need to be developed into full fonts, other fonts have WIP additional writing systems, they may see the light anytime sooner or later)." Ofc this is ONE foundry, so it's only one data point, but maybe this info can help in some way.

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