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
The Mergenthaler Linotype Company was a company founded in the United States in 1886 to market the Linotype machine, a system to cast metal type in lines invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler. It became the
Ottmar Mergenthaler, inventor of the linotype machine and company founder
An 1896 Mergenthaler Linotype stock certificate
A woman operates a Linotron 505, a cathode ray tube phototypesetting machine. Dresden, 1983.