Goudy Old Style

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In Goudy's autobiography, he described the italic based on study of sixteenth-century italics: "I studied many of the older italics and came to the conclusion that...some of the outstanding italics of the sixteenth century had little or no inclination and yet preserved their italic character".{{cite book|last1=Goudy|first1=Frederic|title=A Half-Century of Type Design and Typography: 1895-1945, Volume 1|date=1946|publisher=The Typophiles|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/GoudyHalfCentury1946V1/page/n76 92]|url=https://archive.org/details/GoudyHalfCentury1946V1|quote=I had at some time or other copied a few letters of classic form from a portrait painting - I have always said "by Hans Holbein" but later search has never brought these particular pattern letters to light...I studied many of the older italics and came to the conclusion that...some of the outstanding italics of the sixteenth century had little or no inclination and yet preserved their italic character... Taking the Aldine italic as a starting point [I] succeeded in producing an original letter which, I believe, constituted the first distinctive italic in modern times.|accessdate=18 November 2015}}

Several variants, designed by several designers, were released in the ensuing years (all faces ATF unless otherwise specified).MacGrew, Mac, "American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century," Oak Knoll Books, New Castle Delaware, 1993, pp. 160-161, {{ISBN|0-938768-34-4}}.

By Goudy:

• Goudy Old Style (1915)
• Goudy Old Style Italic, inspired by Aldine designs.
• Goudy Cursive, a "loose italic" adding swashes and more calligraphic alternate characters. Missing from most digitisations but included on the LTC release.{{cite web|title=LTC Goudy Old Style Cursive|url=http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/lanston/ltc-goudy-oldstyle/cursive/glyphs.html|website=MyFonts|publisher=LTC|accessdate=27 August 2015|archive-date=5 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205135545/http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/lanston/ltc-goudy-oldstyle/cursive/glyphs.html|url-status=dead}}

By Morris Fuller Benton:

• Goudy Bold (1916)
• Goudy Title (1918), a full size variation on Goudy's small capitals from the Goudy Old Style roman.
• Goudy Bold Italic (1919) The Lanston Monotype version of the italic includes cursive capitals by Sol Hess.
• Goudy Catalog (1919) and Goudy Catalog Italic (1921), designed as medium weight companions.
• Goudy Extra Bold + Italic (1927)

By others:

• Goudy Handtooled + Italic (1922), were in-line versions of Goudy Bold + Italic (with a white line inside the letter) and were probably designed by Charles H. Becker, though other authorities credit either Morris Fuller Benton or Wadsworth A. Parker. Again, the Lanston Monotype version of the italic includes cursive capitals by Sol Hess.
• Goudy Children, which features single-story variants of the letters a and g in italic, bold, and bold italic styles for use in children's books.

The face was an instant best seller, prompting ATF to issue a special 124-page specimen book of the series in 1927. The descenders of Goudy Old Style were kept short at ATF's insistence to allow tight line setting on their common line system, to Goudy's irritation.{{cite web|last1=Shaw|first1=Paul|title=Flawed Typefaces|url=http://www.printmag.com/featured/flawed-typefaces/|website=Print magazine|accessdate=30 June 2015}} In addition, he sold the design to ATF for $1500 and received no royalty, causing his relationship with the foundry to deteriorate.

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The face was immediately licensed to Lanston Monotype and some of the weights were issued by Intertype as well. Ludlow called its 1924 knock-off the Number Eleven series.MacGrew, "American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century," pp. 160-161. Monotype's designer F.H. Pierpont, better known for Rockwell and Monotype Grotesque, designed a similar face named Horley Old Style, adding a distinct influence of Caslon designs.{{cite web|title=Horley Old Style|url=http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/mti/horley-old-style/|website=MyFonts|publisher=Monotype|accessdate=14 June 2015}}

As the face was a "classic" almost from the day of its issue, producers of cold type offered their own versions of Goudy Old Style under the following names:Lawson, Alexander, Archie Provan, and Frank Romano, "Primer Metal Typeface Identification," National Composition Association, Arlington, Virginia, 1976, pp. 34 - 35.

• Goudy Oldstyle — Alphatype, Berthold, Harris, Mergenthaler
• Goudy Bold — Autologic
• Goudy Light — Dymo, Star/Photon
• Grecian Old Style — Graphic Systems Inc.

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Commercial releases have been made by Monotype, Fontsite, DTP Types, Electric Typographer, Lanston Type, Bitstream, URW++ (bundled with Microsoft Office), Adobe, and Linotype. As many early digitisations were sublicensed, several of these may represent the same digitisation marketed by different rights-holders, possibly upgraded with modern features such as contextual ligature substitution and small caps. LTC's digitisation includes the calligraphic and swash alternate characters, as well as small caps.{{cite web|title=LTC Goudy Oldstyle|url=https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/lanston/ltc-goudy-oldstyle/|website=MyFonts|publisher=Monotype|accessdate=2 July 2015}} Goudy Catalog has been copied by Scangraphic, Bitstream, URW++, and Elsner+Flake. A version called Goudy Schoolbook also exists, with single-story versions of the letters a and g, but it is not for sale to the general public. (The digitisation bundled with Microsoft Office lacks all these features; it does include ligatures, but they must be inserted manually.)

'Sorts Mill Goudy' is an open-source revival created by Barry Schwartz as part of the League of Movable Type project, which contains small capitals and other OpenType features.{{cite web|last1=Schwartz|first1=Barry|title=Sorts Mill Goudy|url=https://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/sorts-mill-goudy|website=League of Movable Type|accessdate=2 July 2015}} Bhikkhu Pesala expanded this under the name 'Sukhumala', adding bold, bold italic and handtooled styles.{{cite web|last1=Pesala|first1=Bhikkhu|title=Fonts|url=http://www.softerviews.org/Fonts.html|website=Softer Views|accessdate=4 September 2015}}

ATF's other related fonts, Goudy Handtooled and Goudy Catalog, have also been digitised, again with a variety of companies holding some rights although only LTC's release includes Handtooled Italic.{{cite web|title=LTC Goudy Handtooled|url=https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/lanston/ltc-goudy-handtooled/|website=MyFonts|publisher=LTC|accessdate=27 August 2015}}{{cite web|title=Goudy Catalog MT|url=https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/mti/goudy-catalogue-mt/|website=MyFonts|publisher=Monotype|accessdate=31 August 2015}}{{cite web|title=Goudy Fontsite releases|url=http://www.fontspring.com/search?q=goudy|website=Fontspring|publisher=Fontsite|accessdate=31 August 2015}} Goudy Title has not been digitised under that name.

Goudy Old Style is the text typeface used in Harper's Magazine.{{cn|date=February 2024}} It is also the typeface used for headings in The Spectator.{{cite web|title=Spectator Style Guide|url=https://styleguides.spectator.co.uk/style-guides/spectator-style-guide|accessdate=6 February 2024}} It is the official typeface of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, and Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. It is also used by the National University of Colombia.[http://www.unal.edu.co/paginas/resolucion_001008_de_2003.html Resolución No. 001008, Agosto 14 de 2003] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305213910/http://www.unal.edu.co/paginas/resolucion_001008_de_2003.html |date=2012-03-05 }}, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 14 August 2003 It is also the standard body text font for Key Club publications.{{cn|date=February 2024}} The bold italic weight is used for the wordmark of Whittard's.{{cn|date=February 2024}}

• List of typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy

• Friedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. {{ISBN|1-57912-023-7}}.
• Lawson, Alexander S., Anatomy of a Typeface. Godine: 1990. {{ISBN|978-0-87923-333-4}}.
• Meggs, Philip B. and McKelvey, Roy.Revival of the Fittest: Digital Versions of Classic Typefaces. RC Publications: 2000. {{ISBN|1-883915-08-2}}.

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• [http://www.linotype.com/1983/goudy.html Goudy at the Linotype Type Gallery]
• [https://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/sorts-mill-goudy Sorts Mill Goudy], a free and open-source revival of Goudy Oldstyle by Barry Schwartz

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