Frederic William Goudy
Frederic William Goudy (born March 8, 1865 in Bloomington (Illinois) , † May 11, 1947 in Malborough-on-Hudson, New York ) was a famous American type designer .
He designed his first Camelot typeface in 1896 for Camelot Press in Chicago. In 1903 he founded the Village Press in Park Ridge, Illinois with Will Ransom, which burned down in 1908. After the company reopened in Forest Hills in 1909, Goudy moved it to Malborough-on-Hudson, New York State, in 1924 and opened his own type foundry there in 1925. In 1939 this company was also destroyed by fire. From 1920 to 1940 Goudy was an artistic advisor to the Lanston Monotype Company and then a lecturer in calligraphy at Syracuse University .
The most famous of Goudy's 120 or so writings include:
- Copperplate Gothic (1905)
- Kennerley (1911)
- Goudy Old Style (1915)
- Hadriano (1918)
- Italian Old Style (1924)
- Deepdene (1927)
- Remington Typewriter (1929),
- Trajan (1930)
- Berkeley Old Style (1938)
- Californian (1938)
- Bulmer (1939)
Robert Wiebking produced the matrices for the following fonts for Goudy:
- Village type (FW Goudy)
- Kennerley & Italic (FW Goudy)
- Goudy Lanston (FW Goudy)
- Goudy Roman (FW Goudy)
- Hadriano (FW Goudy)
- Goudy Open (FW Goudy)
- Goudy Modern & Italic (FW Goudy)
- Goudy Newstyle (FW Goudy)
- Marlboro (FW Goudy)
Goudy wanted his name to be pronounced [ aʊ ]: "... with ou as in out ." (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please ?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936, 71.)
Publications
- The Alphabet , Publisher: Mitchell Kennerley New York 1918
- Elements of Lettering , Publisher: Mitchell Kennerley New York, 1922 - With special note: Text composed by Bertha M. Spinks Goudy in Types designed by the author .
- Why we have chosen Forest Hills Gardens for our home (1915)
- The capitals from the Trajan column at Rome . With XXV plates drawn & engraved by the author. "This book was designed and printed by William E. Rudge's Sons in Village and Trajan types designed by the author. This printing is the first use of Village italics, and the only showing of the Roman other than in privately printed editions" - Colophon . Oxford University Press, 1936.
- Typologia , Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, 1940
- Books by Frederic Goudy in the Internet Archive - online
literature
- Bernard Lewis: B ehind The Type: The Life Story of Frederic W. Goudy . Issued by the Department of Printing. Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh (1941). Digital reprint
Web links
- Goudy fonts at linotype.com
- This is a list of Goudy's typeface designs and interpretations based on Goudy designs .
- Font Glossary on Linotype
- 69 font families by Frederic W. Goudy
- The Frederic Goudy Collection in Denison Library in Claremont, Ca.
- David M. Norton Collection on Frederic W. Goudy at Syracuse University In addition to the collections of Vassar College and the Library of Congress , the Goudy Collection of Syracuse University is one of the most complete in the world.
- Federic Goudy Collection the McLean County Museum of History
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert Wiebking 1870-1927 in Spurius Press
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Goudy, Frederic William |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American typographer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1865 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bloomington , Illinois |
DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 1947 |
Place of death | Malborough-on-Hudson , Ulster County, New York |