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The following is a list of typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy.. Goudy was one of America's most prolific designers of metal type. He worked under the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement, and many of his designs are old-style serif designs inspired by the relatively organic structure of typefaces created between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, following the lead of earlier ...
Goudy Old Style (also known as just Goudy) is an old-style serif typeface originally created by Frederic W. Goudy for American Type Founders (ATF) in 1915.. Suitable for text and display applications, Goudy Old Style matches the historicist trend of American printing in the early twentieth century, taking inspiration from the printing of the Italian Renaissance without a specific historical model.
University of California Old Style metal type in regular and italic styles, compared to two digitizations: Californian FB and ITC Berkeley Old Style Medium. University of California Old Style is a serif typeface designed by Frederic Goudy and created for the University of California Press from 1936–8. [ 1 ]
Goudy Old Style was released in 1915 and became an instant success. (cite) It was well suited for newspaper's advertising sections because of its efficient use of space. ATF continued to expand the Goudy 'family' to Goudy Title in 1917, Goudy Bold in 1920, Goudy Catalogue in 1921, Goudy Handtooled in 1922 and Goudy Extrabold in 1927.
Goudy series (1916), based on Goudy’s Goudy Old Style. Goudy Title (1918) Goudy Bold Italic + Goudy Catalog (1919) Goudy Catalog Italic (1922), credited to Benton, Charles H. Becker, or Wadsworth A. Parker by varying authorities. Garamond series, based upon the designs of 16th-century type founder, Claude Garamond. Garamond (1919), with T.M ...
While Goudy had already designed 18 other typefaces, it was one of Goudy's most successful early designs in his own style. [4] The regular or roman style was designed in 1911, the italic in 1918; bold styles followed in 1924. [5] Kennerley Old Style's italic and swash capitals. Goudy was a fine art printer and later a prolific typeface designer.
Cast by Goudy with the proviso that the department store would have the exclusive use of the font for a time before it would be offered to the public. These were the first matrices cut by Robert Wiebking for Goudy. Pabst Roman Italic (1903, Goudy) Packard (1913, Benton), based on lettering by Oz Cooper. Packard Bold (1916, Benton) Paramount ...
Goudy's biographer D. J. R. Bruckner praised the design as "the type that brings together the most characteristics of Goudy types the best". [3] Goudy later created a blackletter design, Deepdene Open Text and the derived Deepdene Text, which was intended to complement it for purposes such as initial capitals. [a] The designs are not related ...