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Goudy Old Style
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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.
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Category | Serif |
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Classification | Old-style |
Designer(s) | Frederic W. Goudy |
Foundry | American Type Founders |
Date released | 1915 |
Re-issuing foundries | Lanston Monotype Intertype Ludlow |
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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.[1][2] Eccentricities include the upward-curved ear on the g and the diamond shape of the dots of the i, j, and the points found in the period, colon and exclamation point, and the sharply canted hyphen. The design is relatively light in colour.[3]