Goudy Old Style
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Goudy Old Style is an old-style serif typeface originally created by Frederic W. Goudy for American Type Founders in 1915.
The set of fonts in the Goudy 'family' in ATF's 1923 specimen book: the Goudy Old Style, Goudy Catalogue and Goudy Handtooled subfamilies. Goudy Cursive is effectively Goudy Old Style with swashes.
"Goudy Cursive", ATF's expansion of the design with additional swash characters.
A sample of Goudy Old Style in original metal type.
Goudy ATF specimen
American Type Founders
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American Type Founders Co. was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85 percent of all type manufactured in the United States at the time. The new com
Goudy Old Style
…Goudy Old Style (also known as just Goudy) is an old-style serif typeface originally created by Frederic W. Goudy for American Type Founders (ATF) in 1915. Suitable for text and display applications, Goudy Old Style matches the historicist trend of American printing in the early twentieth…
ATF's 1923 specimen book explains that its goal is to 'discourage unhealthy competition' in the printing industry.