font_designer: Frederic Goudy

LTC Goudy Sans

LTC Goudy Sans font

Goudy Sans Bold was originally designed by Fredric Goudy in 1922 as a less formal “gothic” and finished in 1929. The light was designed in 1930 and the Light Italic in 1931. Alternate letterforms...

Cloister Initials

Cloister Initials font

Cloister Initials™ have become FontHaus’s most popular decorative initials font since we began selling it in 1993. First released in 1919 for ATF, Goudy’s “Cloister Initials”, sometimes called Goudy Initials is recognized as “one...

Copperplate Gothic Hand

Copperplate Gothic Hand font

The classic font as designed by F. W. Goudy for ATF in 1901, now in a hand-drawn version for a little bit of variation. Everybody else just offers another version of the same old...

Friar Pro

Friar Pro font

Friar Pro is a revival of Frederic W. Goudy’s “Friar” typeface. Goudy described this typeface design as a ‘typographic solecism’ as it combines a lowercase of half-uncial forms from the 4th through 7th centuries...

Bertham Pro

Bertham Pro font

Bertham Pro Family (4 fonts) is a revival of Frederic W. Goudy’s Bertham typeface. Steve Matteson produced this unique typeface and added bold, italic and openface styles. The fonts include a variety of OpenType...

LTC Goudy Open

LTC Goudy Open font

Goudy Modern/Open was designed by Frederic Goudy, who was inspired by the caption of a French engraving. It is Goudy’s first attempt at a “modern” face, but with less contrast and rigidity normally found...

LTC Goudy Ornate

LTC Goudy Ornate font

Goudy Ornate (also known as Ornate Title) was designed in 1931 by Frederic Goudy. He states “It is a simple, decorative face that has been used by some good presses for use on title-pages...

LTC Record Title

LTC Record Title font

Record Title was designed by Frederic Goudy in 1927 as a proprietary commission for the Architectural Record magazine. Based on classic Roman letter proportions, Goudy considered this one of his most successful commissions ever....

LTC Camelot

LTC Camelot font

Camelot was the first of over 100 typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy. The upper case characters were drawn in 1896 for the Dickinson Type Foundry. Goudy was so encouraged by his check for $10...

Goudy Modern MT

Goudy Modern MT font

The English scholar of typography, Stanley Morison, wrote of Monotype Corporation’s Goudy Modern: “It is strikingly handsome in mass (and) reads easily, in spite of the fact that it is, on the whole, a...