Goudy Bookletter 1911
Designed By
Barry Schwartz
1 Style Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Goudy Bookletter 1911 · Regular
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A preface to the second edition
A Page In Goudy Bookletter 1911
Goudy Bookletter 1911 · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
1 Style,
One Family
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Regular400
A preface to the second edition
Barry Schwartz noticed, while redrawing Frederic Goudy’s Kennerley Oldstyle, that the letters fit together tightly and evenly and lean very little on kerning. He liked that enough to quote the old Monotype specimen books on it, which praised how the characters seem to lock into one another the way early types did. The font does ship with kerning for the pairs that want it, so leave it switched on in your layout program.
That close fit is the reason to use it. A page in Goudy Bookletter 1911 looks dense and even in an old fashioned, bookish way, the capitals tall over a small lowercase, and some letters spread out to claim their space. Schwartz pointed to the bowed v and w as examples.
It is a single Regular with no italic or bold, so it suits a short book of poems or a pamphlet more than a full novel that needs emphasis.
Characters & Figures
292 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 290 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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Goudy Bookletter 1911
1 TTF style with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 41 KB ↓- Version
- 2010.07.03
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
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<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/goudy-bookletter-1911-2/goudy-bookletter-1911-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Goudy Bookletter 1911 Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.