Founded in 1988 by Dan Barthel in Phoenix, Arizona. Produced about 400 fonts, most or all of which were digitized from pre-digital designs, such as Alphabet Innovations and TypeSpectra [Precision Type 1995]. After The Font Company closed down in 1993, the fonts were still distributed by the Precision Type Company until the mid-2000s. Some are available from URW and Ascender Corp. [Devroye] [Sandler]. “Fonts from The Font Company Library begin as Ikarus data digitized by […] URW, or by The Font Company’s own type development studio [Esposito].