Frederic Goudy

Frederic Goudy

Frederic W. Goudy (1865–1947) was a prolific American type designer whose fonts include Copperplate Gothic, Kennerley, and Goudy Old Style. He also designed, in 1938, University of California Oldstyle, for the sole proprietary use of the University of California Press. The Lanston Monotype Company released a version of the face, called Californian, for wider distribution in 1956, and a digital version, called Berkeley, in 1983.

In 1903, Goudy and Will H. Ransom founded the Village Press in Park Ridge, Illinois. This venture was modeled on the Arts and Crafts movement ideals of William Morris. It was moved to Boston, then New York. In 1908, he created his first significant typeface for the Lanston Monotype Machine Company: E-38, sometimes known as Goudy Light. However, in that same year the Village Press burned to the ground, destroying all of his equipment and designs. In 1911, Goudy produced his first "hit," Kennerly Old Style, for an H. G. Wells anthology published by Mitchell Kennerly. His most widely used type, Goudy Old Style, was released by the American Type Founders Company in 1915, becoming an instant classic.

From 1920–1947, Goudy was art director for Lanston Monotype. By the end of his life, Goudy had designed 122 typefaces and published 59 literary works. Goudy was the originator of the well-known statement, "Anyone who would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep."Fact|date=March 2007 (More commonly misquoted as: "Anyone who would letterspace lowercase would steal sheep.")

Goudy wasn't always a type designer. "At 40, this short, plump, pinkish, and puckish gentleman kept books for a Chicago realtor, and considered himself a failure. During the next 36 years, starting almost from scratch at an age when most men are permanently set in their chosen vocations, he cut 113 fonts of type, thereby creating more usable faces than did the seven greatest inventors of type and books, from Gutenberg to Garamond." [ [http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/09/01/type-by-goudy/ Type By Goudy ] ]

Asked how to say his name, he told "The Literary Digest" "When I was a boy my father spelled our name 'Gowdy' which didn't offer any particular reason for verbal gymnastics. Later, learning that the old Scots spelling was 'Goudy,' he changed to that form, while I, for some years, retained the old way. My brother, in Chicago, still spells with the "w". However, I find that occasionally a stranger pronounces the word with "ou" as long "o" in "go", sometimes as "ou" in "soup", or "goo" and less frequently with the "ou" as "oo" in "good". I retain the original pronunciation with "ou" as in "out"." (Charles Earle Funk, "What's the Name, Please?", Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.)

Goudy was born in Bloomington, Illinois on August 3, 1865 and died in Marlborough-on-Hudson on November 5, 1947.

References

External links

* [http://www.linotype.com/7-396-7/fredericwgoudy.html Linotype Library Designers: Frederic W. Goudy]
* [http://www.p22.com/lanston/designers.html#goudy Goudy type designs at Lanston Type Co.]


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