... less well known today than his contemporary Frederic W. Goudy . However, his types have been much digitized and revived, especially by ... Benton, Bold Antique, Broadway, Canterbury, Century Old Style, Century Expanded, Century Schoolbook, Chic, Clearface ...

Wiki - William Berkson - 4 Dec 2007 - 12:45pm - 0 comments

... The Canadian Tire logo is quite old, and uses Futura Display. (To even mention it is tempting fate for a ... Whoa. This almost gots some Whoa. This almost gots some Goudy Sans in it. Bizarre. Heh heh, check out them Heh heh, check out ... design schools taught lettering in the constructive style. This kind of typefaces was “in the air”. (If Futura is ...

Forum topic - Stephen Coles - 11 Aug 2007 - 12:49pm - 145 comments - 0 attachments

... revival interesting. George ‹ Puchasing old Corel Draw to get the fonts. atrocious abc subway ads › Would ... of letterpress is to mix sharp and soft detail. In fact, Goudy did this for his pseudo-incunabula faces such as Kennerley, which were ...

Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 10:58am - 163 comments - 0 attachments

... a nice article on this Dave Farey revival in one of the old X-Height mags. Here are MyFonts ’ and FontShop ’s ... Georgia was designed for screen. You might also look at Goudy Modern, because of it being very American in feel it might go with the ...

Forum topic - dave bailey - 3 May 2006 - 8:23am - 33 comments - 0 attachments

... swash by any means. ChrisL You could always do the old You could always do the old fashioned thing and offer ant alt font... ... back then. (In 1986, for a three-weight font family like Goudy Oldstyle, Adobe charged $185—equivalent to $317 in 2005 dollars.) ...

Forum topic - Eben Sorkin - 1 Nov 2005 - 8:36am - 89 comments - 1 attachment

... he’s testing for letterspacing: that the same tired old flawed testing methods would remain stuck in shallow immersion, and ... coming for your sheep, in reference to the well known Goudy quote. This might suggest that his findings favour looser settings. ...

Forum topic - enne_son - 11 Aug 2005 - 6:46am - 76 comments - 0 attachments

... see whether I could get a bit of help ID-ing a few more old nameplates. If this one goes well (and you Typophiles would like to help ... include Cooper Old Style (probably the best), Windsor, Goudy Catalogue, and Cooper BT. Couldn’t find any other good matches on ...

Forum topic - auricfuzz - 23 Apr 2006 - 12:28pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments

... side-bearing built-in to the “1”. So when the old-style figure is the “little” 1 that looks like a dotless ... mind *sheepish grin* never mind *sheepish grin* Goudy’s idea (which the Goudy’s idea (which the old guys stole from ...

Forum topic - jason - 8 Jun 2005 - 10:19pm - 58 comments - 0 attachments

... when I try to load it. It might be because it is too old? ChrisL “Fonts bending in the “Fonts bending in the ... the idea. So it has indeed been done, but at least not by Goudy’s pesky “old folk”. :-) hhp Why not just ...

Forum topic - jlg4104 - 21 Mar 2006 - 5:56am - 114 comments - 0 attachments

John Berry notes that Mark van Bronkhorst’s old style italic for his typeface Verdigris is exceptionally readable ... but round. This can already be found in the italics of Goudy’s Truesdell and Village. It looks like Goudy adopted a form of ...

Forum topic - William Berkson - 20 Jan 2006 - 1:26pm - 66 comments - 0 attachments