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OUDY OLD STYLE
CONTENTS 1. Information 2. Designer’s Profile 3. Font Family 4. Glyphs 5. Anatomy 6. Paragraphs 7. Application
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oudy old style is an old - style classic serif typeface originally created by Fredric W, Goudy for American Type Founders in 1915. Suitable for both text and display applications. Goudy Old Style is a graceful, balanced design with a few eccentricities, including the upward - curved ear on the 'g' and the diamond shaped dots of the 'i', 'j' and the points found in the period, colon, exclamation mark and the sharply canted hyphen.
The legs of the 'L' and 'E' have a curvilinear structure to them; they appear almost spoon shaped in their upward sweep. Goudy Old Style is considered to be among the most legible and readable typefaces. It os the text typeface used in Harpers' Magazine and the official typeface of Emory University in Atlanta, Moravian College in Bethlehem, and Northwestern University in Evanston. It is also used by the National University of Columbia and is the standard book text for Key Club Publications.
Goudy Old Style is considered by many to be one of the most legible and readable typefaces ever produced, if used on printed media. This coupled with it’s elegant forms make it a fine choice for novels, highend magazines, event posters, programs, business cards, stationary and any creative with an emphasis on beauty and sophistication. One such example is Harper’s Magazine, which has used Goudy Old Style throughout the much of the magazine’s more recent history.
Frederic W. Goudy (1865–1947) Frederic W. Goudy was perhaps the most prolific American type designer of his time. He claimed 123 designs (counting every roman/italic pair as two). His sometimes uneven styles were all based on aspects of his own writing hand, so a certain repetition distinguishes all of his unique body of work. He supported himself with several printing businesses, then in 1920 joined Lanston Monotype as art director, a position that he occupied until his death in 1947, when he was succeeded by his close friend and collaborator, Sol Hess.
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Font Bureau has cut Goudy’s final pair of major series, Village, 1936, and Californian, 1938. The two can be said to summarize his style. Goudy had started Village in 1932 to bring his early ideas up to date, adding the italic for his own satisfaction. In the early nineties David Berlow expanded this model of Goudy’s mature work into a ten-part series, initially prepared for Esquire.
Profile
In 1938 Goudy designed California Oldstyle for the University of California Press. In 1958 Lanston Monotype issued it generally as Californian. In 1988 Carol Twombly digitized the roman for Font Bureau. Berlow later revised it, adding italic and small caps; Jane Patterson designed the Bold. In 1999, assisted by Richard Lipton & Jill Pichotta, David Berlow designed the Black.
Font Family
GOUDY OLD STYLE REGULAR
12 pt
GOUDY OLD STYLE REGULAR
14 pt
GOUDY OLD STYLE ITALIC
18 pt
GOUDY OLD STYLE ITALIC
21 pt
GOUDY OLD STYLE BOLD
24 pt
GOUDY OLD STYLE BOLD
36 pt
G lyphs
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Anatomy Diagonal Stress
Ordg Round Bracket
Moderate Diffrence Between Thick And Thin Stroke
Wedge Shape Serif
Terminal
Ear
Counter
Bowl
Title
fg xQi Loop Shoulder
Tail Ascender
Crossbar
RdH Joint Leg
Stem
Serif
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http://www.magnetstreet.com/wedding-blog/ fun-with-fonts-the-art-of-wedding-typography
http://caseyprinting.com/blog/2013/typography/ goudy-old-style-the-graceful-typeface/