(Goudy did not say which). The dots (
tittles) on the 'i' and 'j' are diamond-pattern, and the
descenders were kept short at ATF's insistence to allow tight line setting on their
common line system. Many revivals have been released. •
Booklet Old Style (1916,
ATF), apparently never marketed. Proof shown in Goudy's memoir. •
National Old Style (1916,
ATF), quite similar to his
Nabisco. •
Unnamed (1917), Goudy had zinc etchings made of this face and pulled proofs, which dissatisfied him. He scrapped the face and the drawings are now in the
Library of Congress. • ''Advertiser's Roman'' (1917, nc), patterns were cut but never cast, all traces lost in Goudy's 1939 studio fire. •
Cloister Initials (1918,
ATF), a set of floral initials designed to be used with
Morris Fuller Benton's Cloister Old Style. •
Hadriano Title (1918,
Lanston Monotype + 1927,
Continental), matrices cut by
Wiebking. Based on the appearance of worn stone capitals. •
Hadriano Lower Case (1930, nc), designed by Goudy for Monotype but never cut. In 1932 Monotype released a full-font that consisted of
Hadriano Title matched with
Kennerley Bold lower case letters.
Goudy Open and Goudy Modern •
Goudy Open (1918, Village Letter Foundry + 1924,
Monotype Ltd. + 1927,
Continental), matrices cut by
Wiebking. An open face design (similar to
Imprint Shadowed) but influenced by
Didone or Modern serif fonts, such as
Didot and
Bodoni. The influence is visible in exactly horizontal serifs on letters with ascenders, very different to other Goudy 'open face' designs. Goudy's aim was to 'redeem' the Didone letterform by letting more white space into it, in order to preserve the outline area and bulk of the letterforms while reducing the area of ink on the page. •
Goudy Modern (1918, Village Letter Foundry + 1924,
Monotype Ltd. + 1927,
Continental), basically a "filled in" version of
Goudy Open, matrices cut by
Wiebking. Used in the
Arion Press's 1980 edition of
Moby Dick, typeset by
Andrew Hoyem. •
Goudy Open Italic + Modern Italic (1919, Village Letter Foundry + 1924,
Monotype Ltd.), matrices cut by
Wiebking. The normal italic was this time made first, then the open design. •
Collier Old Style (1919,
ATF), a private type for Proctor & Collier, a
Cincinnati advertising agency, matrices cut by
Wiebking. •
Lining Gothic (1921, nc), a caps-only, almost sans-serif design with small wedge serifs on the stroke ends. Drawings for this face were complete, but when
Wiebking was late in cutting the matrices, the order was cancelled and Goudy lost interest in the design. Example prints are shown in Goudy's autobiography and
Elements of Lettering. Writing in 1946, he noted that had he resumed work, he could have anticipated
Kabel and
Futura with the design. It is also strikingly similar to
Albertus of over a decade later. •
Nabisco (1921, privately cast), cut for the
National Biscuit Company based on the hand-lettered logotype he had done for them twenty years ago, matrices cut by
Wiebking.
Garamont One of Goudy's most popular typefaces in his lifetime, Garamont (1921,
Lanston Monotype + 1927,
Continental) was loosely based on metal types in the
Imprimerie nationale, the French government printing-office, that were at the time thought to be the work of
Claude Garamont. Research by
Beatrice Warde, published in 1926, revealed that actually these designs were the work of
Jean Jannon, working more than fifty years after Garamond's death. An elegant sample created by
Bruce Rogers was shown in a spring 1923 issue of Monotype's magazine. Garamont features a large range of
swash characters.
Mosley has described it as "a lively type, underappreciated I think."
LTC's digitisation deliberately maintained its eccentricity and irregularity true to period printing, something Goudy had insisted on in his original design, avoiding perfect verticals. •
Goudy Newstyle (1921,
Village Letter Foundry + 1927,
Continental + 1941
Lanston Monotype), re-cut in 1935 and sold to Monotype who then marketed it as
Goudy Bible. It was also used by the
Grabhorn Press, who used it in an edition of
Leaves of Grass. This face was then adapted by
Bruce Rogers and
Sol Hess for the famous
Oxford Lectern Bible of 1948. •
Italian Old Style + Italic (1924,
Lanston Monotype + 1927,
Continental) Often confused with some other faces of the same name, it is notable for its 'A' with serifs on either side of the top. It was used to set Goudy's autobiography. •
Goudy Heavy Face + Italic (1925,
Lanston Monotype + 1927,
Continental), intended to compete with
Cooper Black. An ultra-bold typeface with minimal stress in the old-style pattern;
Walter Tracy, not always a fan of Goudy's type designs, thought it "one of Goudy's best" and "superior" to its competitors. •
Marlborough (1925,
Village Letter Foundry + 1927,
Continental), a private face designed for a printer who lost interest in the project before completion. The matrices were cut by
Wiebking and a few fonts were cast by Goudy, and these were destroyed in Goudy's studio fire of 1939. A revised version of this design was sold to
Lanston Monotype in 1942, but Monotype apparently did not release it. A picture is shown in Goudy's 1946 memoir. •
Venezia Italic (1925,
Monotype Ltd.), made at the request of type designer
George W. Jones to accompany his
Venezia Roman.
1926 to 1929 From 1926 until his death, Goudy cut all of his own faces (at least in the pilot sizes). From 1927-1929, Goudy cast type at his own Village Letter Foundry and marketed them through the Continental Type Founders Association. After 1929 he ceased casting his own fonts and they were cast for Continental by the New England Type Foundry. •
Goudy Antique (1926, privately cast by
Village Letter Foundry + 1927,
Continental), the first type matrices actually cut by Goudy himself. •
Aries (1926), privately cast for Spencer Kellogg's
Aries Press. A medieval-inspired design with upper- and lower-case. •
Goudy Uncials (1927, nc), drawings were completed, all traces lost in Goudy's 1939 studio fire. •
Companion Old Style + Italic (1927,
Lanston Monotype), a private face cut for the ''
Woman's Home Companion'' magazine. Created with a very full character set, including italic swash caps and small capitals. A set of matrices survives in the collection of the Tampa Book Arts Studio. A favourite of Goudy's, who felt it showed more 'consistent original features than any other face I have ever made' (Tracy did not like it). (The
Companion would later become one of the first magazines in the USA to switch to
Times New Roman in 1943.) 2021 digitization by
Steve Matteson.
Deepdene series A crisp design inspired by a typeface designed in the Netherlands, which Goudy's Paul Bennett wrote was
Jan van Krimpen's Lutetia. One of Goudy's more popular designs, with several digital revivals, although as of 2016 only LTC's includes the swash capitals and small caps of Goudy's original design conception. Named after Goudy's home in Marlborough. •
Deepdene (1927,
Continental, later
Lanston Monotype) Changes were made to fit Monotype's machine composition system. •
Deepdene Italic (1928,
Continental, later
Lanston Monotype), matrices cut by
Bertha M. Goudy. Notable for a
nearly-upright italic. •
Deepdene Medium (1931, nc), designed for
Lanston Monotype but evidently never cast. •
Deepdene Bold + Bold Italic (1934,
Lanston Monotype) •
Remington Typewriter (1927,
Lanston Monotype) Though intended to be used on
Remington typewriters, it was eventually picked up by Monotype. An attempt to avoid the feeling of unevenness of monospaced typefaces (which tend to make letters like 'i' seem too wide and 'W' too squashed) through creating an italic design. Goudy wrote that although he was paid well for the design, he did not know if it had ever been used by Remington. •
Record Title (1927), inspired by Roman capitals, privately cast for
Architectural Record magazine at the commission of Charles DeVinne, grandson of the famous printer and type designer,
Theodore Low De Vinne. •
Goudy Dutch (1927, nc), designs complete but never cut, all traces lost in Goudy's 1939 studio fire. Based on the handwriting of a letter from a correspondent in the Netherlands, rather than on Dutch printing styles. •
Goudytype (1928,
ATF), designed and cut in 1916, not cast and sold until later. •
Goudy Text (1928,
Continental, later
Lanston Monotype) Originally named 'Goudy Black'. A
blackletter design, "text" is short for
textura, another term for blackletter. Tracy admired it as "wholly admirable...the letters are very well matched to each other and produce a fine result when composed in text." •
Inscription Greek (1929, nc), a font of the eleven
Greek capitals not found in the Roman alphabet. These were intended to be used with
Kennerley Old Style small caps to form a Greek font. •
Lombardic Capitals (1929,
Continental +
Lanston Monotype), capitals only, intended to serve as alternate, decorative capitals for
Goudy Text. •
Goudy Sans Serif series An eccentric display-oriented sans-serif design with a highly calligraphic italic. Considered little-used by Goudy in his memoir, although digitised and revived several times since. •
Strathmore Title (1929), designed as part of a project for Strathmore Paper Company, only fourteen letters were cut before the project was abandoned. ==1930 to 1934==