Goudy Sans
Bold Italic
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- Classification
- Sans Serif, Humanist Sans
- Original Format
- Metal (Machine Composition)
- Distributor(s)
- MyFonts
Background
This was one of the first sanserifs to break from the Realist model by opening the aperture and implying a written more than a constructed form. Goudy Sans is the spiritual father of several recent sanserifs, including Erik Spiekermann’s Meta and Officina – and like them it is not quite as sans as the name suggests. There are residual serifs in many of the forms. The digital version, issued in 1986 by ITC, is in some respects an improvement on the original.
Background Source
- Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style, p. 242