Goudy, Frederic W

Goudy, Frederic W

▪ American printer and typographer
born March 8, 1865, Bloomington, Ill., U.S.
died May 11, 1947, Marlboro, N.Y.

      U.S. printer and typographer who designed more than 100 typefaces outstanding for their strength and beauty.

      Goudy taught himself printing and typography while working as a bookkeeper. In 1895, in partnership with a teacher of English, C. Lauren Hooper, he set up the Camelot Press in Chicago, which printed the Chap-book, widely praised for its fine design, for Stone & Kimball publishers. He sold the first typeface he designed, called Camelot, to a Boston printer for $10. In 1903, in association with his wife, Bertha, and with Will Ransom, he started the Village Press in Park Ridge, Ill. Goudy moved the Village Press to Massachusetts in 1904 and to New York City in 1906. After several more moves, Goudy and the Village Press came to rest in 1923 in Marlboro, N.Y. The workshop and associated type foundry burned in 1939.

      Goudy taught at the Art Students League (1916–24) and New York University (1927–29). From 1920 to 1940 he was art director of the Lanston Monotype Machine Company. He produced such faces as Goudy Old Style, Kennerley, Garamond, and Forum for the American Type Founders and Lanston companies. He was the author of The Alphabet (1918), Elements of Lettering (1922), Typologia (1940), and the autobiographical A Half-Century of Type Design and Typography, 1895–1945 (1946).

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