Goudy Bookletter 1911

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Credits

Designer(s)
Barry Schwartz
Foundry(ies)
The League of Moveable Type
Release Year
2009
Country of Origin
United States
Classification
Serif, Old Style, Antique
Original Format
Digital
Distributor(s)
The League of Moveable Type
Tags
free, oldstyle, serif

Background

Based on Frederic Goudy’s Kennerley Oldstyle.

This font is in the public domain.

Designer Barry Schwartz on why he thinks Kennerley Oldstyle is beautiful:

In making this font, I discovered that Kennerley fits together tightly and evenly with almost no kerning. Thus the following words from Monotype specimen books are just: “[W]hen composed into words the characters appear to lock into one another with a closeness common in early types, but not so often seen in later-day creations.” These are letters that take command of the space around them; notice, for instance, the bowed shapes of the v and w.

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Last edited by Christopher O'Donnell on December 19, 2009, 03:41pm EST

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