Frederic William Goudy

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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 [ ]: "... with ou as in out ." (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please ?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936, 71.)

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Individual evidence

  1. Robert Wiebking 1870-1927 in Spurius Press