Type Museum, London. The Heritage Lottery Fund funded the work at the suggestion of Susan Shaw in 1996 so that the machinery and equipment of Stephenson Blake (and Robert DeLittle of York) could be loaded up and sent to South London. Typefaces The foundry types produced by Stephenson Blake fall into three categories: those designed in-house, those designed by firms subsequently merged into Stephenson Blake, and those designs licensed from other foundries. Original designs Designs of predecessor corporations Licensed designs Successor corporation Stephenson & Blake is now a company which specializes in High Frequency Welding brass electrodes and CNC machining for all types of brass welding/cutting dies and has a huge collection of samples and products which are machined to order. Their in-house machining/engineering department make tooling for any kind of plastic welding, and because of the CNC machining department, can make extraordinary dies which are impossible to make out of tooling rule. In December 2007, Stephenson & Blake acquired Nu-Gauge engineering, who are a major manufacturer to the glass gauge industry in the United Kingdom. Nu-Gauge engineering has been merged to within Stephenson & Blake, and will make any type of gauge to order with extremely tight tolerances. In December 2009, Stephenson & Blake acquired the steel rule tooling business from DR Tooling Ltd; They now design and manufacture steel cutting tools alongside their High Frequency Welding tools. In 2010 Stephenson & Blake acquired the Brass Welding/High Frequency Welding rule business from Caslon. Stephenson & Blake now manufacture the whole of Caslon's High Frequency Welding Rule range alongside their own inventory. Use within Sheffield The University of Sheffield uses two fonts "TUOS Stephenson" (serif, originally designed by S&B) and "TUOS Blake" (sans serif) as part of their corporate identity. Sheffield City Council uses a corporate font, Wayfarer, commissioned from designer Jeremy Tankard that is based on Stephenson Blake's sans-serif Granby and Grotesque No. 9 families. References External links website Stephenson Blake's original Impact brochure "The Impact of Impact": pages 1, 2, 3, 4 Letterpress font foundries of the United Kingdom Manufacturing companies established in 1818 Manufacturing companies based in Sheffield