Kennerley Old Style
The Kennerley Old Style , also known as Kennerley for short , is a typeface by the famous American type designer Frederic Goudy . In terms of classification, it is classified - according to DIN standard 16518 - in the group of Venetian Renaissance antiquas. It is now available in digitized form from various providers.
Emergence
The Kennerley Old Style was commissioned in 1911 for an anthology by the British science fiction writer HG Wells, edited by the New York publisher Mitchell Kennerley . The basic variant ( novel ) was created in 1911, the italic type in 1918, the associated Bold variants in 1924. The matrices for Goudy's templates were made by the German-American engraver and die cutter Robert Wiebking . In Europe, the Kennerley was popularized by Pelican Press , the commercial and advertising printing division of the Victoria House Publishing Company, which among other things published the Labor Party's weekly newspaper . In addition to Kennerley letters, Pelican introduced other Goudy types from the USA and used them in conjunction with other Monotype fonts. From the 1920s onwards, the Kennerley was distributed by the US-American Monotype spin-off - the Philadelphia- based Lanston Monotype Company , of which Goudy acted as art director from 1920.
Goudy himself characterized Kennerley as a book-type font with strict serifs , solid hairstyles and created for a solid and compact page appearance. Viewed from the perspective of Goudy's career as a type designer, the Kennerley was his first "hit". To this day it is considered one of his best text fonts - and one of the few old-style fonts in American typography that is not based on a historical original .
Digital versions
The Kennerley is currently available digitally in three versions: as LTC Kennerley with a total of 13 weights , slightly less developed than Berthold font with 6 weights, and digitalized in only 4 weights by Richard Beatty. The Kingsley from 1999 is also based on the Kennerley - designed by Leslie Usherwood and Steve Jackaman and published by the Red Rooster Collection label.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Great typographers: Frederic W. Goudy , Frank Müller / Jürgen Funke, Invers, issue 4/2001 (PDF)
- ↑ PM Handover: The Art of British Books. In: International book art in the 19th and 20th centuries. Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1969. Publisher number: 60.141, p. 31
- ^ LTC Kennerley . Info text on LTC Kennerley at myfonts.com (Engl.)
- ^ [1] Kennerley Old Style by Richard Beatty