After reading some about Frederic Goudy , I was struck by how prolific he was, how he had a tough breaks with ... a closer look at his types and decided I really like Goudy Old Style . I mentioned it on my blog . I was surprised by one ... Goudy Heavyface, Kaatskill, Goudy Ornate, and Goudy Text, all on Lanston . I was especially surprised when I came across Goudy ...

Forum topic - Steve Tiano - 11 Nov 2007 - 11:02am - 34 comments - 0 attachments

Indices : Designers : Frederic W. Goudy The preeminent American type designer who had created over 100 ... Initials Goudy Oldstyle Goudy Sans Goudy Text Goudy Thirty Hadriano Kaatskill Kennerley ...

Wiki - paul d hunt - 20 Nov 2006 - 6:20am - 0 comments

... the regular weights for LTC Caslon LTC Goudy Heavyface portions of the LTC Goudy Oldstyle Family LTC Goudy Text LTC Hess Monoblack P22 FLLW Midway LTC Powell LTC ...

Wiki - paul d hunt - 18 Nov 2008 - 5:44am - 0 comments

... I’ve read an interesting story about good ol’ Goudy. Making research about the unfortunate and talented Oz Cooper, I’ve ... But seriously think about the context. This isn’t text type. It’s ad type. To me Cooper black is genius. I really ...

Forum topic - David R - 24 Nov 2007 - 1:47am - 43 comments - 0 attachments

... scene. Some are used as display faces, some are used as text faces, and some are useda s an italic, for italic in general is not used ... in its creation, as reported and published by Frederick Goudy. For such an important type design, you would think that it would get ...

Forum topic - gohebrew - 12 Sep 2008 - 4:54am - 303 comments - 0 attachments

... looking for help: if you have any document (visual and/or text) about a ’forgotten typeface’, I’d be very happy to ... consider the lesser known designs by his contemporaries Goudy and Dwiggins. There are probably dozens of Goudy faces that are ...

Forum topic - David R - 2 Dec 2008 - 7:50am - 43 comments - 0 attachments

... more soft, swashy treatment of terminals that works is in Goudy sans, but it’s too busy and informal for a bank. One of the ... on a sans at display sizes and a straight-forward sans at text sizes. Wow Kris, I’m impressed. Wow Kris, I’m impressed. ...

Forum topic - kris - 1 Oct 2008 - 3:24pm - 115 comments - 0 attachments

... is an elegant-looking face for extended stretches of text. That said—and despite my ranting about the current, exasperating ... of an old fogy too but it reminds me of the 80s, as does Goudy. Unfortunately I haven’t bought a new serif font in awhile ...

Forum topic - gertie - 29 Nov 2007 - 9:52pm - 80 comments - 0 attachments

... Silica by Sumner Stone. Italian Old Style by Frederic W. Goudy. Amen, Jürgen. Join me in Amen, Jürgen. Join me in pestering ... really quite well on screen, as well as being an excellent text face for print. I’ll upload an image when I get to a computer where ...

Forum topic - Yehan - 12 Nov 2008 - 9:32pm - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... in common. But I think your design is geared to extended text and so is robust whereas Amalia is more delicate and is suited to magazine ... quality – come right out with it), with Frederick’s [Goudy] carefully constructed curves. [Exhibit D] I have been cogitating the ...

Forum topic - Eben Sorkin - 4 Feb 2008 - 6:50pm - 105 comments - 0 attachments