Frederic Goudy type d e s i g n e r INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND DESCRIPTION Discussion Conclusions References Frederic Goudy was an American type designer Frederic Goudy type d e s i g n e r INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND Frederic Goudy was born in Bloomington IL in March 8 1865 and died in 1947 1888 At age 23 Goudy was a book keeper for credit and mortgage companies 1895 At age 30 Goudy sent a set of capital letters to Dickinson Type Foundry in Boston with a query of Might these be worth five dollars These capitals were accepted and he was paid ten DESCRIPTION Discussion Conclusions dollars for a half hours work He didnt make another sale for another three years 1905 At age 40 Goudy started a small printshop in Chicago In less than a year he was kicked out Then Goudy moved to Hingham MA trying to work for a press Two years later Goudy moved to New York City to try commercial lettering References QUOTES The perfect type would be completely invisible I consider a type good when it can t be any gooder Anyone who would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep Blackletter was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 to 1500 It continued to be used for the German language until the twentieth century Fraktur is a notable script of this type and sometimes the entire group of faces is known as Fraktur Wikipedia Frederic Goudy type d e s i g n e r INTRODUCTION 1911 At age 46 Goudy gets his first important commission to create the typeface for an H G Wells book the design was named Kennerly Kennerly was the first American typeface to be sold BACKGROUND abroad It was Goudy s most profitable typeface as of 1942 with royalties and sales amounting to 25 000 DESCRIPTION Goudy visited the Louvre and made an impression of three letters P E and R from a Discussion Conclusions Copperplate Gothic 1905 stone tablet about Emperor Hadrian 1917 Goudy Old Style 1915 At age 52 Goudy uses impression to make his Hadriano typeface that is used on California student s diplomas Trajan Trajan column and Forum memory typefaces were inspired by References another European tour 1916 At age 51 Goudy sells 8 typefaces to the Caslon type foundry in London 1920 At age 55 Goudy becomes Art Director for Lanston Monotype and stays at this position for the 1947 next 27 years 1925 At age 60 Goudy s type engraver Robert Weibking died Goudy decided to start his own foundry called Village Press and Letter Foundry Goudy did everything from sketches to final drawings and even engraved the type himself Goudy still engraved his own type even after his right eye went blind For 14 years he worked in his foundry which was in a 150 year old house At first he used makeshift tools and then he replaced them with professional tools and installed permanent machinery 1939 At age 74 Goudy s foundry went up in flames and he immediately got back to work working on the University of California s Old Style 1947 At age 82 Goudy died He created 116 typefaces in his lifetime cutting 113 of those after the age of 40 Goudy s fonts include Copperplate 1905 Kennerley 1911 Goudy Old Style 1915 Deepdene 1927 Remington Typewriter 1929 Californian 1938 and Bulmer 1939 Californian 1938 Remington Typewriter 1929 Frederic Goudy type d e s i g n e r INTRODUCTION Frederic Goudy is known as one of the best and most prolific American type designers BACKGROUND DESCRIPTION With the creation of 116 fonts you should know about his work because maybe you will want to add Discussion some dynamicness to it Conclusions References Goudy created the type that went still goes on diplomas for the University of California Frederic Goudy type d e s i g n e r INTRODUCTION Goudy has a very inspirational story Even at such a late age he found what he was passionate in and BACKGROUND was able to be one of the best at his work Even with set backs such as failing at his first attempt at DESCRIPTION a foundry his type engraver dying his second foundry burning down and becoming blind in his right Discussion eye Goudy kept designing type Conclusions References Frederic Goudy type d e s i g n e r INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND Linotype 2007 Font Designer Frederic W Goudy http www linotype com 396 fredericwgoudy html accessed February 10 2007 DESCRIPTION Discussion Modern Mechanix 2006 Type By Goudy http blog modernmechanix com 2006 09 01 type by Conclusions goudy Qwd PopularScience 4 1942 goudy Qif goudy 0 jpg Qiv thumbs Qis XL qdig References accessed February 10 2007 Wikipedia 2007 Frederic Goudy http en wikipedia org wiki Frederic Goudy accessed February 10 2007