List of typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy
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s designed by Frederic Goudy
Frederic Goudy
Frederic W. Goudy was a prolific American type designer whose typefaces include Copperplate Gothic, Kennerley, and Goudy Old Style. He also designed, in 1938, University of California Oldstyle, for the sole proprietary use of the University of California Press...


  • Camelot (1896, Dickinson Type Foundry), Goudy designed only the capitals, lower-case letters were evidently added by Dickinson/ATF designer Joseph W. Phinney
    Joseph W. Phinney
    Joseph Warren Phinney was an American printer, type designer, and business executive. Phinney began his career at the Dickinson Type Foundry in Boston where he designed type and worked in management, eventually becoming owner...

    .
  • Unnamed (1896) this was a second set of drawings sent to Dickinson Type Foundry that he sent them after they had accepted Camelot. It was neither accepted nor cast, but Goudy numbered it among his faces.
  • Display Roman (1897, nc), Goudy numbered it among his designs, though even he was unsure of what it was or if it were ever cast.
  • Devinne Roman (1898, Central Type Foundry, ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    ), a book face based on Theodore Low DeVinne's
    Theodore Low De Vinne
    Theodore Low De Vinne was an American printer and scholarly author on typography.De Vinne was born at Stamford, Connecticut, and educated in the common schools of the various towns where his father had pastorates. He developed the ability to be a printer while employed in a shop at Fishkill, New...

     display type.
  • Pabst Old Style or Pabst Roman (1902, ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    ), based on hand lettering done by Goudy for advertisements for the Pabst Brewing Company
    Pabst Brewing Company
    Pabst Brewing Company is an American company that dates its origins to a brewing company founded in 1844 by Jacob Best and by 1889 named after Frederick Pabst. It is currently the holding company contracting for the brewing of over two dozen brands of beer and malt liquor from defunct companies...

    , though commissioned by Schlesinger & Mayer, a Chicago
    Chicago
    Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

     department store. Cast by ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

     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 Wiebking
    Robert Wiebking
    Robert Wiebking was a German-American engraver typeface designer who was known for cutting type matrixes for Frederic Goudy from 1911 to 1926.-Life and career:...

     for Goudy.
    • Pabst Roman Italic (1903, ATF
      American Type Founders
      American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

      )
  • Powell (1903, Keystone Foundry), commissioned by one Mr. Powell, then advertising manager for Mandel Brothers department store (earlier he had commissioned Pabst Old Style for another store), and named after him.
  • Village series
    • Village (1903, Wiebking, Harding & Co.), cut by Wiebking
      Robert Wiebking
      Robert Wiebking was a German-American engraver typeface designer who was known for cutting type matrixes for Frederic Goudy from 1911 to 1926.-Life and career:...

      . Originally designed for Kuppenheimer & Company
      Kuppenheimer
      B. Kuppenheimer & Co., or simply Kuppenheimer, was a mens clothing manufacturing and retail operation based in Chicago, Illinois and later Atlanta, Georgia.- History :...

      , who later decided it would be too expensive to cast, it was later bought by Frederick Sherman. The mats are still extant and cast by Dale Guild Foundry
      Theo Rehak
      Theo Rehak is a typefounder and the author of Practical Typecasting , The Fall of ATF; a Serio-Comedic Tragedy and co-author of The Music and Life of Theodore "Fats" Navarro" . He is one of the few remaining craftsmen in the field of metal typefounding...

      .
    • Village No. 2 (1932, Continental
      Continental Type Founders Association
      Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

      , later Lanston Monotype), cut by Goudy for an edition of Theodore Low De Vinne's
      Theodore Low De Vinne
      Theodore Low De Vinne was an American printer and scholarly author on typography.De Vinne was born at Stamford, Connecticut, and educated in the common schools of the various towns where his father had pastorates. He developed the ability to be a printer while employed in a shop at Fishkill, New...

       The Old and the New, later marketed by Monotype.
    • Village Italic (1934, Continental
      Continental Type Founders Association
      Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

       + Lanston Monotype), cut by Goudy. A companion to the No. 2 face.
  • Baron's Boston News Letter (1904, ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    ), a private face cut for Joseph Baron's financial newsletter, matrices cut by Wiebking
    Robert Wiebking
    Robert Wiebking was a German-American engraver typeface designer who was known for cutting type matrixes for Frederic Goudy from 1911 to 1926.-Life and career:...

    .
  • Engravers' Roman (1904, nc), Goudy was uncertain if this type had ever been cast, and there is no mention of it in ATF's
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

     records.
  • Chushing Italic Sometime after 1904, Goudy claimed that Clarence C. Marder asked him to draw an italic to complement ATF's
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

     existing Cushing Roman, but ATF catalogs show it as existing as early as 1898, thus precluding Goudy from having designed it.
  • Copperplate Gothic Heavy
    Copperplate Gothic
    Copperplate Gothic is a typeface designed by Frederic W. Goudy and released by the American Type Founders in 1901. While termed a "Gothic" , the face has small glyphic serifs that act to emphasize the blunt terminus of vertical and horizontal strokes...

    (1905, ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    ), originally designed for Marder, Luse, & Co.
    Marder, Luse, & Co.
    Marder, Luse, & Co. was founded in 1855 as the Chicago Type Foundry and Printer's Warehouse by C. G. Sheffield as branch of Elihu White's New York foundry, Farmer, Little & Co.. This was the first type foundry to operate in Chicago...

    , ATF immediately adopted it and made it the first in a hugely successful series. Clarence C. Marder and Morris Fuller Benton
    Morris Fuller Benton
    Morris Fuller Benton was an influential American typeface designer who headed the design department of the American Type Founders , for which he was the chief type designer from 1900 to 1937...

     later cut dozens of variations for ATF.
  • Caslon Revised
    Caslon
    Caslon refers to a number of serif typefaces designed by William Caslon I , and various revivals thereof.Caslon shares the irregularity characteristic of Dutch Baroque types. It is characterized by short ascenders and descenders, bracketed serifs, moderately-high contrast, robust texture, and...

    (1905, nc), Clarence C. Marder of ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

     had asked Goudy to draw a more regular version of William Caslon's
    William Caslon
    William Caslon , also known as William Caslon I, was an English gunsmith and designer of typefaces. He was born at Cradley, Worcestershire, and in 1716 started business in London as an engraver of gun locks and barrels, and as a bookbinder's tool cutter...

     famous face, but the result was never cast.
  • Caxton Initials (1905, ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    ), font included twenty-six capitals and one leaf ornament only.
  • Globe Gothic Bold (1905, ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    ), a companion to Morris Fuller Benton's
    Morris Fuller Benton
    Morris Fuller Benton was an influential American typeface designer who headed the design department of the American Type Founders , for which he was the chief type designer from 1900 to 1937...

     Globe Gothic.
  • Monotype 38E Roman + Italic (1908, Lanston Monotype), originally made for use in Life Magazine and later marketed as Goudy Light and Goudy Light Italic. Sometimes known as Gimbel because of its constant use in ads for Gimbel's Department Store.
  • Norman Capitals (1910, privately cast by ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    ), cut for Munder-Thompson Company, a Baltimore
    Baltimore
    Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...

     printing firm, and named for Norman Munder. Mats engraved by Wiebking
    Robert Wiebking
    Robert Wiebking was a German-American engraver typeface designer who was known for cutting type matrixes for Frederic Goudy from 1911 to 1926.-Life and career:...

    .


From 1911 to 1926 (with a few exceptions) Goudy's designs were cut by Wiebking
Robert Wiebking
Robert Wiebking was a German-American engraver typeface designer who was known for cutting type matrixes for Frederic Goudy from 1911 to 1926.-Life and career:...

. Some were private commissions, others were cut first and then offered for sale.

  • Kennerley series
    • Kennerley Old Style (1911, Village Letter Foundry + 1920, Lanston Monotype + 1927 Continental
      Continental Type Founders Association
      Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

      ), cut for New York publisher Mitchell Kennerley
      Mitchell Kennerley
      Mitchell Kennerley was an American publisher, born at Burslem, England. He was the manager of the New York branch of John Lane, the London publisher, from 1896 to 1900, business manager of the Smart Set in 1900-01, founded in 1901 and was editor and proprietor until 1905 of the Reader magazine,...

    • Kennerley Italic (1918, Village Letter Foundry + 1920, Lanston Monotype + 1927 Continental
      Continental Type Founders Association
      Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

      )
    • Kennerley Bold + Bold Italic (1924, Lanston Monotype + Continental
      Continental Type Founders Association
      Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

      )
  • Forum Title (1911, Lanston Monotype), capitals only, based on the lettering on the Arch of Titus
    Arch of Titus
    The Arch of Titus is a 1st-century honorific arch located on the Via Sacra, Rome, just to the south-east of the Roman Forum. It was constructed in c.82 AD by the Roman Emperor Domitian shortly after the death of his older brother Titus to commemorate Titus' victories, including the Siege of...

     in the Roman Forum
    Roman Forum
    The Roman Forum is a rectangular forum surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum...

    .
  • Sherman
    Sherman
    Sherman is a surname that originated in the Anglo-Saxon language. It means a "shearer of woolen garments", being derived from the words scearra, or "shears", and mann, or "man". The name is cognate with Sharman, Shearman and Shurman. Sherman has also been regularly used as a given name in the...

    (1912), privately cast for publisher Frederick Sherman who disliked it and never used it.
  • Goudy Old Style (1912, Village Letter Foundry), in 1915, when ATF requested this name for his new face for them, Goudy agreed and re-named this face Goudy Antique. When Lanston Monotype bought and issued the face, it was again renamed, in honor of Tolbert Lanston, under its most common name, Goudy Lanston. Issued in England
    England
    England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

    , with some alterations, by Caslon
    William Caslon
    William Caslon , also known as William Caslon I, was an English gunsmith and designer of typefaces. He was born at Cradley, Worcestershire, and in 1716 started business in London as an engraver of gun locks and barrels, and as a bookbinder's tool cutter...

     under the name Ratdolt. Evidently, this altered English version, was issued under the names Foster and Moore by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler
    Barnhart Brothers & Spindler
    Barnhart Brothers & Spindler Type Foundry was founded as the Great Western Type Foundry in 1873. It became Barnhart Brothers & Spindler ten years later. It was a successful foundry known for innovative type design and well designed type catalogs. Oz Cooper, Will Ransom, Robert Wiebking, and...

     along with a "matching" italic (see below).
  • Klaxon (1914, cut for Klaxon Auto Warning Signal Company), the matrices, which were cut by Wiebking
    Robert Wiebking
    Robert Wiebking was a German-American engraver typeface designer who was known for cutting type matrixes for Frederic Goudy from 1911 to 1926.-Life and career:...

    , were lost in Goudy's 1939 studio fire.
  • Goudy Roman (1914), originally designed for Louis Orr of the Bartlett Press who was supposed to have them cast by Caslon Foundry
    William Caslon
    William Caslon , also known as William Caslon I, was an English gunsmith and designer of typefaces. He was born at Cradley, Worcestershire, and in 1716 started business in London as an engraver of gun locks and barrels, and as a bookbinder's tool cutter...

    , but Caslon refused to take on new work due to a "war scare". Later, Barnhart Brothers & Spindler
    Barnhart Brothers & Spindler
    Barnhart Brothers & Spindler Type Foundry was founded as the Great Western Type Foundry in 1873. It became Barnhart Brothers & Spindler ten years later. It was a successful foundry known for innovative type design and well designed type catalogs. Oz Cooper, Will Ransom, Robert Wiebking, and...

     expressed interest in the project cut trial matrices, which Goudy did not like, so he eventually cut the matrices himself. It is unclear if the type was ever cast in quantity.
    • Goudy Italic, a companion to Goudy Roman which never progressed past initial drawings which were then destroyed in Goudy's 1939 studio fire.


In 1915 and 1916, Goudy was on retainer for American Type Founders
American Type Founders
American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

 and all of his matrices were cut in house by ATF.

  • Goudy Old Style series (ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    )
    • Goudy Old Style + Italic (1915)
    • See below for many variations cut by others.
  • Goudy Cursive (1916, ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    )
  • National Old Style (1916, ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    ), quite similar to his Nabisco. Often used on inter-title cards for silent movies.
  • Booklet Old Style (1916, ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    ), apparently never marketed by ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    .
  • Unnamed (1917), Goudy had zinc etchings made of this face and pulled proofs, which dissatisfied him. He scrapped the face and the drawings are now in the Library of Congress
    Library of Congress
    The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...

    .
  • Advertiser's Roman (1917, nc), patterns were cut but never cast, all traces lost in Goudy's 1939 studio fire.
  • Cloister Initials (1918, ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    ), designed to be used with Morris Fuller Benton's
    Morris Fuller Benton
    Morris Fuller Benton was an influential American typeface designer who headed the design department of the American Type Founders , for which he was the chief type designer from 1900 to 1937...

     Cloister.
  • Hadriano Title (1918, Lanston Monotype + 1927, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ), matrices cut by Wiebking
    Robert Wiebking
    Robert Wiebking was a German-American engraver typeface designer who was known for cutting type matrixes for Frederic Goudy from 1911 to 1926.-Life and career:...

    .
    • Hadriano Lower Case (1930, nc), designed by Goudy for Monotype but never cut. In 1932 Monotype released a full-font that consisted of Hadriano Title matched with Kennerley Bold lower case letters.
  • Goudy Open (1918, Village Letter Foundry + 1924, Monotype Ltd.
    Monotype Corporation
    Monotype Imaging Holdings is a Delaware corporation based in Woburn, Massachusetts and specializing in typesetting and typeface design as well as text and imaging solutions for use with consumer electronics devices. Monotype Imaging Holdings is the owner of Monotype Imaging Inc., Linotype,...

     + 1927, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ), matrices cut by Wiebking
    Robert Wiebking
    Robert Wiebking was a German-American engraver typeface designer who was known for cutting type matrixes for Frederic Goudy from 1911 to 1926.-Life and career:...

    .
    • Goudy Modern (1918, Village Letter Foundry + 1924, onotype Corporation|Monotype Ltd. + 1927, Continental
      Continental Type Founders Association
      Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

      ), basically just a "filled in" version of Goudy Open, matrices cut by Wiebking
      Robert Wiebking
      Robert Wiebking was a German-American engraver typeface designer who was known for cutting type matrixes for Frederic Goudy from 1911 to 1926.-Life and career:...

      .
    • Goudy Open Italic + Modern Italic (1919, Village Letter Foundry + 1924, Monotype Ltd.
      Monotype Corporation
      Monotype Imaging Holdings is a Delaware corporation based in Woburn, Massachusetts and specializing in typesetting and typeface design as well as text and imaging solutions for use with consumer electronics devices. Monotype Imaging Holdings is the owner of Monotype Imaging Inc., Linotype,...

      ), matrices cut by Wiebking
      Robert Wiebking
      Robert Wiebking was a German-American engraver typeface designer who was known for cutting type matrixes for Frederic Goudy from 1911 to 1926.-Life and career:...

      .
  • Collier Old Style (1919, ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    ), a private type for Proctor & Collier, a Cincinnati advertising agency, matrices cut by Wiebking
    Robert Wiebking
    Robert Wiebking was a German-American engraver typeface designer who was known for cutting type matrixes for Frederic Goudy from 1911 to 1926.-Life and career:...

    .
  • Lining Gothic (1921, nc), drawings for this face were complete, but when Wiebking
    Robert Wiebking
    Robert Wiebking was a German-American engraver typeface designer who was known for cutting type matrixes for Frederic Goudy from 1911 to 1926.-Life and career:...

     was late in cutting the matrices, the order was canceled.
  • Nabisco
    Nabisco
    Nabisco is an American brand of cookies and snacks. Headquartered in East Hanover, New Jersey, the company is a subsidiary of Illinois-based Kraft Foods. Nabisco's plant in Chicago, a production facility at 7300 S...

    (1921, privately cast), cut for the National Biscuit Company based on the hand-lettered logotype he had done for them twenty years ago, matrices cut by Wiebking
    Robert Wiebking
    Robert Wiebking was a German-American engraver typeface designer who was known for cutting type matrixes for Frederic Goudy from 1911 to 1926.-Life and career:...

    .
  • Garamont
    Garamond
    Garamond is the name given to a group of old-style serif typefaces named after the punch-cutter Claude Garamond . Most of the Garamond faces are more closely related to the work of a later punch-cutter, Jean Jannon...

     + Italic
    (1921, Lanston Monotype + 1927, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ), based on the faces of Claude Garamond
    Claude Garamond
    Claude Garamond was a French publisher from Paris. He was one of the leading type designers of his time, and is credited with the introduction of the apostrophe, the accent and the cedilla to the French language. Several contemporary typefaces, including those currently known as Garamond, Granjon,...

    .
  • Goudy Newstyle (1921, Village Letter Foundry + 1927, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

     + 1941 Lanston Monotype), re-cut in 1935 and sold to Monotype who then marketed it as Goudy Bible. This face was then adapted by Bruce Rogers and Sol Hess
    Sol Hess
    Sol Hess was an American typeface designer. After a three-year scholarship course at Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Design, he began at Lanston Monotype in 1902, rising to typographic manager in 1922. He was a close friend and collaborator with Monotype art director Frederic Goudy,...

     for the famous Oxford Lectern Bible
    Oxford Lectern Bible
    The Oxford Lectern Bible was a massive edition of the English Bible designed by American typographer Bruce Rogers. The Bible, completed in 1935, was published by Oxford University Press. There were three sizes of the Bible printed...

     of 1948.
  • Italian Old Style + Italic (1924, Lanston Monotype + 1927, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    )
  • Goudy Heavy Face + Italic (1925, Lanston Monotype + 1927, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ), intend to compete with Cooper Black
    Cooper Black
    Cooper Black is a heavily weighted, old style serif typeface designed by Oswald Bruce Cooper in 1921 and released by the Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type foundry in 1922. The typeface is drawn as an extra bold weight of Cooper Old Style. Though not based on a single historic model, Cooper Black...

    .
  • Marlborough (1925, Village Letter Foundry + 1927, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ), a private face designed for a printer who lost interest in the project before completion. The matrices were cut by Wiebking
    Robert Wiebking
    Robert Wiebking was a German-American engraver typeface designer who was known for cutting type matrixes for Frederic Goudy from 1911 to 1926.-Life and career:...

     and a few fonts were cast by Goudy, and these were destroyed in Goudy's studio fire of 1939. A revised version of this design was sold to Lanston Monotype in 1942, but Monotype, evidently, did nothing with it thereafter.
  • Venezia Italic (1925, Monotype Ltd.
    Monotype Corporation
    Monotype Imaging Holdings is a Delaware corporation based in Woburn, Massachusetts and specializing in typesetting and typeface design as well as text and imaging solutions for use with consumer electronics devices. Monotype Imaging Holdings is the owner of Monotype Imaging Inc., Linotype,...

    ), made at the request of type designer George W. Jones to accompany his Venezia Roman.


From 1926 until his death, Goudy cut all of his own faces (at least in the pilot sizes). From 1927-1929, Goudy cast type at his own Village Letter Foundry and marketed them through the Continental Type Founders Association
Continental Type Founders Association
Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

. After 1929 he ceased casting his own fonts and they were cast for Continental
Continental Type Founders Association
Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

 by the New England Type Foundry.

  • Goudy Antique (1926, privately cast by Village Letter Foundry + 1927, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ), the first type matrices actually cut by Goudy himself.
  • Aries (1926), privately cast for Spencer Kellogg's Aries Press.
  • Goudy Uncials (1927, nc), drawings were completed, all traces lost in Goudy's 1939 studio fire.
  • Companion Old Style + Italic (1927, Lanston Monotype), a private face cut for the Woman's Home Companion
    Woman's Home Companion
    Woman's Home Companion was an American monthly publication, published from 1873 to 1957. It was highly successful, climbing to a circulation peak of more than four million during the 1930s and 1940s....

     magazine.
  • Deepdene series
    • Deepdene (1927, Continental
      Continental Type Founders Association
      Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

      , later Lanston Monotype) Changes made to fit Monotype's machine composition were not done by Goudy himself.
    • Deepdene Italic (1928, Continental
      Continental Type Founders Association
      Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

      , later Lanston Monotype), matrices cut by Bertha M. Goudy.
    • Deepdene Medium (1931, nc), designed for Lanston Monotype but evidently never cast.
    • Deepdene Bold + Bold Italic (1934, Lanston Monotype)
  • Remington Typewriter (1927, Lanston Monotype), though intended to be used on Remington
    E. Remington and Sons
    E. Remington and Sons was a manufacturer of firearms and typewriters. Founded in 1816 by Eliphalet Remington in Ilion, New York, on March 1, 1873 it started manufacturing the first commercial typewriter.-Becoming "E. Remington & Sons":...

     typewriters, it was eventually picked up by Monotype.
  • Record Title (1927), privately cast for Architectural Record
    Architectural Record
    Architectural Record is an American monthly magazine dedicated to architecture and interior design, published by McGraw-Hill Construction in New York City. It is over 110 years old...

     magazine at the commission of Charles DeVinne, grandson of the famous printer and type designer, Theodore Low De Vinne
    Theodore Low De Vinne
    Theodore Low De Vinne was an American printer and scholarly author on typography.De Vinne was born at Stamford, Connecticut, and educated in the common schools of the various towns where his father had pastorates. He developed the ability to be a printer while employed in a shop at Fishkill, New...

    .
  • Goudy Dutch (1927, nc), designs complete but never cut, all traces lost in Goudy's 1939 studio fire.
  • Goudytype (1928, ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    ), designed and cut in 1916, not cast and sold until later.
  • Goudy Black (1928, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ), later cast as Goudy Text by Lanston Monotype).
  • Inscription Greek (1929, nc), a font of the eleven Greek capitals that don't exist in the Roman alphabet. These were intended to be used with Kennerley Old Style small caps to form a Greek font. No casting information available.
  • Lombardic Capitals (1929, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

     + Lanston Monotype), capitals only, intended to serve as alternate, decorative capitals for Goudy Text.
  • Goudy Sans Serif series
    • Goudy Sans Serif Heavy or Sans Serif Bold (1929, Lanston Monotype)
    • Goudy Sans Serif Light (1930, Lanston Monotype)
    • GoudySans Serif Light Italic (1931, Lanston Monotype)
  • Kaatskill (1929, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ), a private face cut for the Limited Editions Club edition of Rip Van Winkle
    Rip Van Winkle
    "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving published in 1819, as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it was part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon...

    .
  • Strathmore Title (1929), designed as part of a project for Strathmore Paper Company, only fourteen letters were cut before the project was abandoned.
  • Goudy Forum (1929, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

     + 1932, Lanston Monotype)
  • Unnamed (two faces) (1930), two designs with job numbers from 1930 were destroyed in the fire of 1939. Nothing else known.
  • Trajan Title (1930, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    , later Monotype Ltd.
    Monotype Corporation
    Monotype Imaging Holdings is a Delaware corporation based in Woburn, Massachusetts and specializing in typesetting and typeface design as well as text and imaging solutions for use with consumer electronics devices. Monotype Imaging Holdings is the owner of Monotype Imaging Inc., Linotype,...

    ), a private face in the U.S., it was marketed in England and Europe by British Monotype.
  • Mediaeval (1930, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    )
  • Truesdell + Italic (1930, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ), designed for a preface published in the Colophon No. 5
    The Colophon, A Book Collectors' Quarterly
    The publication titled The Colophon, subtitled A Book Collectors' Quarterly or A quarterly for booklovers, was a limited edition quarterly periodical begun late in 1929 and continuing in various guises until 1950. It was the brainchild of Elmer Adler , founder of Pynson Printers of New York City...

     and named for Goudy's mother.
    • Truesdell Italic (1931, Continental
      Continental Type Founders Association
      Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

      )
  • Goudy Ornate or Ornate Title (1930, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ), capitals only.
  • Advertisers Modern (1930, privately cast), cut for the Manuel Rosenberg, publisher of The Advertiser.
  • Deepdene Open Text (1931, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ), cut as headings for a book by Edmund G. Greiss. Capitals only.
    • Deepdene Text (1931, Continental
      Continental Type Founders Association
      Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

      ), basically just a "filled-in" version of Deepdene Open Text.
  • Foster Abstract (1931, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ), designed by Robert Foster
    Robert Foster
    Robert Foster may refer to:*Robert Sanford Foster , Union general*Sir Robert Sidney Foster , former governor-general of Fiji...

     with matrices cut by Goudy and cast privately.
  • Goethe (1932, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ), basically a lighter version of Goudy Modern, cut for the Goethe Centenary Exhibition in Leipsig.
    • Goethe Italic (1932, Continental
      Continental Type Founders Association
      Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

      ), cut for the Limited Editions Club edition of Frankenstein
      Frankenstein
      Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first...

      .
  • Quinian Old Style (1932, nc), named for the editor of American Mercury who commissioned the type, however the drawings were rejected and subsequently perished in Goudy's studio fire of 1939.
  • Mostert (1932, nc), project never progressed beyond first round of proofs.
  • Aries (re-cut) (1932, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ), later sold to Edwin Grabhorn, a San Francisco printer, who had it cast by Lanston Monotype and re-named it Franciscan. Subsequently cast by McKenzie & Harris.
  • Goudy Boldface (1932, nc), level of completion uncertain, records lost in Goudy's 1939 studio fire.
  • Goudy Book (1933, nc), designs complete but never cut, all traces lost in Goudy's 1939 studio fire.
  • Mercury (1933, nc), designs complete but never cut, all traces lost in Goudy's 1939 studio fire.
  • Saks Goudy + Italic + Bold Caps (1934), a private type cast for Saks Fifth Avenue
    Saks Fifth Avenue
    Saks Fifth Avenue is a luxury American specialty store owned and operated by Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises , a subsidiary of Saks Incorporated. It competes in the high-end specialty store market in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, i.e. 'the 3 B's' Bergdorf, Barneys, Bloomingdale's and Lord & Taylor...

     department store.
    • Saks Goudy Bold Caps actually consists of the small capitals of larger sizes cast on larger bodies.
  • Hasbrouck (1934, nc), designs complete but never cut, all traces lost in Goudy's 1939 studio fire
  • Textbook Old Style (1934, nc), designs complete but never cut, all traces lost in Goudy's 1939 studio fire..
  • Tory Text (1935, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ), based on the letters of Geoffroy Tory
    Geoffroy Tory
    Geoffroy Tory, born in Bourges around 1480 and died in Paris before 14 October 1533, was a French humanist and an engraver, best known for adding written letters in French. His life's work has heavily influenced French publishing to this day.-Biography:...

    . Used only for one book, though one of Goudy's favorites. Capitals later cannibalized for New Village Text.
  • Atlantis (1935, nc), designs complete but never cut, all traces lost in Goudy's 1939 studio fire.
  • Millvale (1935, nc), designs complete but never cut, all traces lost in Goudy's 1939 studio fire.
  • Bertham (1936, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ), Goudy's 100th typeface, done by request for American Printer Magazine. Based on Leonard Holle's 1482 design and named for Goudy's wife, Bertha M. Goudy.
  • Pax (1936, nc), matrices were cut, but Goudy was disappointed with the results and never cast the type.
  • Friar (1937, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ), designed for his own amusement, Goudy only cast a few fonts of this face in 12 point.
  • University of California Old Style + Italic (1938, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ) cut for the University of California Press
    University of California Press
    University of California Press, also known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish books and papers for the faculty of the University of California, established 25 years earlier in 1868...

     and reissued in 1958, by Lanston Monotype as Californian and Californian Italic. Later famously digitized as Berkeley Old Style.
  • New Village Text (1938, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ), not a new face but a mongrel cast by Goudy's son consisting of capitals from Tory Text and lower-case letters from Deepdene Text.
  • Murchison
    Murchison
    Murchison is the name of:* Alice Lynne Murchison, the maiden name of Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton* Carl Murchison , American psychologist* Charles Murchison , British politician...

    (1938, Photostat Corporation), Goudy's only excursion into cold type. Named for the president of Photostat Corporation.
  • Goudy Stout (1939, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ), only cut in 24 pt. capitals, few ever cast.
  • Bulmer (1939, nc), an attempt to design a lower-case for fine capitals by William Bulmer
    Bulmer (typeface)
    Bulmer is the name of transitional serif typeface originally designed by William Martin in 1792 for the Shakespeare Press. The types were used for printing the Boydell Shakespeare folio edition....

    , never completed.
  • Scripps College Old Style (1941), a private face cast for Scripps College
    Scripps College
    Scripps College is a progressive liberal arts women's college in Claremont, California, United States. It is a member of the Claremont Colleges. Scripps ranks 3rd for the nation's best women's college, ahead of Barnard College, Mount Holyoke College, and Bryn Mawr College at 23rd on the list for...

    . Commissioned by college librarian Dorothy Drake, it was intended for the use of students interested in book making.
    • Scrips College Italic (1944)
  • Spencer Old Style + Italic (1943, nc), commissioned for a large book printing firm but never accepted due to wartime restrictions. Later the design was given to Syracuse University
    Syracuse University
    Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...

     and named for H. Lyle Spencer, dean of the School of Journalism.
  • Marlborough Text (1944, Continental
    Continental Type Founders Association
    Continental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...

    ), a private face for International Printing Company. Though a complete design, only the letters to print "Certificate of Honor" were ever cut.
  • Hebrew University (1945, nc), a font of Hebrew letters commissioned by the American Friends of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
    Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ; ; abbreviated HUJI) is Israel's second-oldest university, after the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The Hebrew University has three campuses in Jerusalem and one in Rehovot. The world's largest Jewish studies library is located on its Edmond J...

    . No casting information available.
  • Goudy Thirty (1953, Lanston Monotype), cut with the intention of being issued after Goudy's death, "thirty" being a newspaper term for the end of the story. Goudy finished work on it in 1942 and Monotype waited several years after his death in 1947 before issuing the font.

"Goudy" faces designed by others

  • Hearst (1902, Inland Type Foundry
    Inland Type Foundry
    The Inland Type Foundry was an American type foundry established in 1894 in Saint Louis, Missouri and later with branch offices in Chicago and New York City...

    ). Goudy claimed that this had been copied from lettering he had done for a book of verses for children, and it is similar to his Pabst Roman.
  • Powell Italic (1908, Keystone Foundry), designed in-house by Keystone. Has the distinction of being the first "non-kerning" italic where no character overhangs the body, an idea that proved quite popular.
  • Goudy Bold (1916, ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    ) and Goudy Bold Italic (1919, ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    ), were designed by Morris Fuller Benton
    Morris Fuller Benton
    Morris Fuller Benton was an influential American typeface designer who headed the design department of the American Type Founders , for which he was the chief type designer from 1900 to 1937...

     as companions to Goudy Old Style. The Lanston Monotype version of the italic includes cursive capitals by Sol Hess
    Sol Hess
    Sol Hess was an American typeface designer. After a three-year scholarship course at Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Design, he began at Lanston Monotype in 1902, rising to typographic manager in 1922. He was a close friend and collaborator with Monotype art director Frederic Goudy,...

    .
  • Goudy Title (1918, ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    ) is a full size variation on Goudy's small capitals from his Goudy Old Style and was designed by Morris Fuller Benton
    Morris Fuller Benton
    Morris Fuller Benton was an influential American typeface designer who headed the design department of the American Type Founders , for which he was the chief type designer from 1900 to 1937...

    .
  • Goudy Catalog (1919, ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    ) and Goudy Catalog Italic (1921, ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    ), were designed by Morris Fuller Benton
    Morris Fuller Benton
    Morris Fuller Benton was an influential American typeface designer who headed the design department of the American Type Founders , for which he was the chief type designer from 1900 to 1937...

     as medium weight companions to Goudy Old Style.
  • Goudy Handtooled + Italic (1922, ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    ), were in-line versions of Goudy Bold + Italic and were probably designed by Charles H. Becker, though other authorities credit either Morris Fuller Benton
    Morris Fuller Benton
    Morris Fuller Benton was an influential American typeface designer who headed the design department of the American Type Founders , for which he was the chief type designer from 1900 to 1937...

     or Wadsworth A. Parker
    Wadsworth A. Parker
    Wadsworth A. Parker was an American printer and typeface designer. He was a director of the American Type Founders Company, designed many faces for them, and served as head of their specimen department. His faces are typically highly decorative and often capture the Art Deco style of the...

    . Again, the Lanston Monotype version of the italic includes cursive capitals by Sol Hess
    Sol Hess
    Sol Hess was an American typeface designer. After a three-year scholarship course at Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Design, he began at Lanston Monotype in 1902, rising to typographic manager in 1922. He was a close friend and collaborator with Monotype art director Frederic Goudy,...

    .
  • Italian Old Style Wide (1924, Lanston Monotype), designed by Sol Hess
    Sol Hess
    Sol Hess was an American typeface designer. After a three-year scholarship course at Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Design, he began at Lanston Monotype in 1902, rising to typographic manager in 1922. He was a close friend and collaborator with Monotype art director Frederic Goudy,...

     as a companion to Goudy's Italian Old Style.
  • Number Eleven series (1924, Ludlow
    Ludlow Typograph
    A Ludlow Typograph is a hot metal typesetting system used in letterpress printing. The device casts bars, or slugs of type, out of type metal primarily consisting of lead. These slugs are used for the actual printing, and then are melted down and recycled on the spot.The Ludlow system uses molds,...

    ), are out-and-out copies of the Goudy Old Style series.
  • Kennerley Open Capitals (1925, Lanston Monotype), were designed by Sol Hess
    Sol Hess
    Sol Hess was an American typeface designer. After a three-year scholarship course at Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Design, he began at Lanston Monotype in 1902, rising to typographic manager in 1922. He was a close friend and collaborator with Monotype art director Frederic Goudy,...

    .
  • Goudy Heavy Face Open (1926, Lanston Monotype) and Goudy Heavy Face Condensed (1927, Lanston Monotype), were designed by Sol Hess
    Sol Hess
    Sol Hess was an American typeface designer. After a three-year scholarship course at Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Design, he began at Lanston Monotype in 1902, rising to typographic manager in 1922. He was a close friend and collaborator with Monotype art director Frederic Goudy,...

    .
  • Goudy Extra Bold + Italic (1927, ATF
    American Type Founders
    American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...

    ), were a further extension of the Goudy Old Style series by Morris Fuller Benton
    Morris Fuller Benton
    Morris Fuller Benton was an influential American typeface designer who headed the design department of the American Type Founders , for which he was the chief type designer from 1900 to 1937...

    .
  • Foster Italic and Moore Italic (1927, BB&S
    Barnhart Brothers & Spindler
    Barnhart Brothers & Spindler Type Foundry was founded as the Great Western Type Foundry in 1873. It became Barnhart Brothers & Spindler ten years later. It was a successful foundry known for innovative type design and well designed type catalogs. Oz Cooper, Will Ransom, Robert Wiebking, and...

    ), were designed by Richard N. McArthur, and based on the English alteration of Goudy Lanston mentioned above.
  • Hadriano Stone Cut (1932, Lanston Monotype), was an in-line version of Hadriano Title designed by Sol Hess
    Sol Hess
    Sol Hess was an American typeface designer. After a three-year scholarship course at Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Design, he began at Lanston Monotype in 1902, rising to typographic manager in 1922. He was a close friend and collaborator with Monotype art director Frederic Goudy,...

    .
  • Goudy Text Shaded (Lanston Monotype), was designed in house by Monotype.
  • Pabst Old Style Condensed (Mergenthaler Linotype), was designed in house by Linotype. Pabst Extra Bold, though also cast by Linotype, has no relation to Goudy's face and is actually a knock-off of Cooper Black
    Cooper Black
    Cooper Black is a heavily weighted, old style serif typeface designed by Oswald Bruce Cooper in 1921 and released by the Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type foundry in 1922. The typeface is drawn as an extra bold weight of Cooper Old Style. Though not based on a single historic model, Cooper Black...

    .

Additional sources

  • Rollins, Carl Purlington American Type Designers and Their Work. in Print
    Print (magazine)
    The publication, Print, A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts, was a limited edition quarterly periodical begun in 1940 and continued under different names up to the present day as Print, a bimonthly American magazine about visual culture and design.In its current format, Print documents and...

    , V. 4, #1.
  • MacGrew, Mac, "American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century," Oak Knoll Books, New Castle Delaware, 1993, ISBN 0-938768-34-4.
  • Bruckner, D.J.R., "Frederic Goudy," Documents of American Design series, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York City, 1990, ISBN 0-8109-1035-7.
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