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Producing type for bold face names like Time, Newsweek, Wired, The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Museum of Modern Art, and Yale University, among many others, Matthew Carter and Carter & Cone need no introduction.

When Carter & Cone became a part of The Type Founders we were able to provide the business and operational backbone that allowed them to concentrate on what they loved most: their craft.

Together, we were able to help them take their font, Richmond CC, initially commissioned for a major daily British newspaper redesign, and expand into a complete family with contributions from Jill Pichotta and Richard Lipton of The Type Founders. The typeface was enriched with a broader range of weights and styles it would not have achieved independently. The Miller Banner family was also expanded, with four new widths — Extra Compressed, Compressed, Extra Condensed, and Condensed — all in five weights with true italics, making it suitable for luxury branding, fashion magazines, and newspaper headlines.

What’s more, The Type Founders has elevated Carter & Cone’s visibility and reach across the industry. For instance, when Taylor Swift chose Big Caslon for the branding of her album The Tortured Poets Department, we amplified the cultural moment and made sure the design community knew that, once again, Carter & Cone, had impacted culture like only they can.

They’re perfect examples of how The Type Founders’ team has been able to supplement Carter & Cone’s design output, helping the foundry bring more complete and commercially viable type families to the world.

The Ludlow Type Foundry has a storied history rooted in the early 20th century. Founded in 1906 and headquartered in Chicago, Ludlow manufactured a device for casting slugs of type for use in letterpress printing, The foundry’s typefaces eventually found their way into the digital era through the vision of British typography expert Steve Jackaman, whose Red Rooster Collection, part of The Type Founders Family exclusively licensed the Ludlow Collection in 1995.

In January 2026, with the help of The Type Founders, the Ludlow Collection released a digital interpretation of Tempo in three weights with ten weights in upright and italic.We took great care to release a version of Tempo that maintains the spirit of the original while expanding upon it in meaningful ways. It’s this kind of rigorous, collaborative revival work that Jackaman’s founding vision called for — and that The Type Founders’ in-house team of designers and engineers is uniquely positioned to deliver at scale, honoring heritage while bringing it firmly into the present.

So what’s next for Jackaman and The Type Founders? The Tempo revival points to an exciting pipeline of similar work still to come from Ludlow’s archive. Record Gothic is a prime example: a large, disparate family developed over many decades, each new style mirroring the fashions of its period, that most contemporary designers don’t know because it never made the jump to digital format.