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Hand-Set Metal Type
Feel the authentic weight of movable type. Pick lead letters from traditional California job cases, arrange mirrored lines in setting sticks and fine-tune justification with brass spaces.
Step into a 19th-century print shop. Typefoundry: Metal Letterpress turns your iPhone into a tactile studio for hand-set lead type and deep, debossed prints.
Set your line, then pull the lever.
Feel the authentic weight of movable type. Pick lead letters from traditional California job cases, arrange mirrored lines in setting sticks and fine-tune justification with brass spaces.
Tighten mechanical quoins to secure your chase, roll thick, viscous ink over metallic faces and pull heavy iron levers with responsive CoreHaptics feedback.
Watch fine cotton fibers yield under pressure, leaving crisp debossed letterforms with dynamic lighting and specular metallic highlights.
Mount your device horizontally and your desk becomes an illuminated antique printing press, showing off your custom-set quotation under ambient studio light.
🏛️ We are a small band of typography nerds, designers and print-shop romantics who believe the best tools are the ones you can almost smell: warm oil, cold metal, fresh cotton paper.
🎯 Our mission is simple: keep the lost art of metal typesetting alive and put it within reach of anyone with a phone, without the mess, the cost or the 200-pound cabinets.
🔠 Typefoundry gives you a serene digital atelier: job cases to rummage through, mirrored lines to compose, quoins to tighten, a press to pull and a tabletop standby mode that makes your favorite quotation glow on your desk.
⚙️ Set it in lead. Pull it with feeling.
Effective Date: October 2026
Typefoundry: Metal Letterpress does not collect, store or share any data. Everything you do in the app runs locally on your iPhone.
None. We do not collect personal information, usage data, device identifiers, or the lines of type you compose.
Since we collect nothing, we have nothing to use. Your typeset lines, prints and settings exist only to power the features you see on screen.
Any content you create stays in the app's local storage on your device. There is no cloud, no server and no sync. The app works fully offline.
Typefoundry contains no analytics, advertising networks, social SDKs or trackers. The app needs no internet connection to run. Haptic feedback uses Apple's on-device CoreHaptics framework only.
Because your data never leaves your device, it is protected by the security features of iOS itself, such as device passcode and system sandboxing. We have no database that could be breached.
The app is suitable for all ages. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children under 13, in line with COPPA principles.
You are in full control. There are no accounts to create or manage. To delete everything the app has stored, simply uninstall it.
If this policy changes, we will update the effective date above and publish the revised version here. Our commitment to collecting no data will stay at the heart of it.
Questions about privacy? Write to privacy@typefoundrymetalletterpressapp.com.
💌 Questions, kind words or a typographic quirk you'd love to see? Write to us; there is a real human at the other end of the wire.
⏱️ We reply within 24–48 hours, usually with ink still on our fingers.