Deepdene
The Deepdene is a copy of the famous American type designer Frederic Goudy . Written between 1924 and 1934, it is one of Goudy's lesser-known writings. In terms of classification, it is classified - according to DIN standard 16518 - in the group of Venetian Renaissance antiquas.
Emergence
The Deepdene was created in the second half of the 1920s - at a time when Frederic Goudy, its designer, was turning to broken fonts . The name referred to the location of the house of Goudy and his wife in Marlborough , New York State . Monotype initially rejected Goudy's design. A publication at Monotype competitor Linotype was temporarily planned. Allegedly due to a misunderstanding, the Deepdene was then adopted into the Monotype range. The Roman version was created in 1927 - although Goudy was not involved in the finalization for the Monotype typesetting machines . The Italic was created in 1928; Goudy's wife, Bertha M. Goudy, made the matrices. Between 1931 and 1934, the deepdene was completed with a medium, bold and bold italic cut .
Goudy himself admitted that the design was closely based on the Lutetia - a typeface by the Dutch type designer Jan van Krimpen , which was published around the same time as Deepdene . In contrast to the well-known Goudy Old Style or the Kennerley Old Style, the Deepdene is one of Goudy's “small”, not so well-known fonts. In Germany it was sold by the Berlin Berthold AG for a long time . A revision for the photo typesetting took place in 1982/83 by the typographic director at Berthold, Günter Gerhard Lange . Three versions are currently available digitally: the one from Berthold with 6 weights (Deepdene BQ) , one from the German supplier URW Type Foundry with 4 weights plus additional small caps and one from Lanston Type Company (LTC Deepdene) with 13 weights. LTC sees itself as the creative estate administrator of the US monotype branch , is operated by the makers of the type label P22 in Buffalo , New York and mainly sells digitally reissued original fonts from the Lanston range - including some by Frederic W. Goudy.
Others
Deepdeen is also the name of a park and a now defunct country house in Surrey that at times belonged to Thomas Hope .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Great typographers: Frederic W. Goudy , Frank Müller / Jürgen Funke, Invers, issue 4/2001 (PDF)
- ^ Lange, Günter Gerhard , Wolfgang Beinert, typolexikon.de, accessed on December 16, 2015
- ↑ Search Results for: Deepdene . Search query for Deepdene in the font portal MyFonts.com on December 18, 2015