Frederic Goudy
Graphic Designer, Author
1865 – 1947
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Who was Frederic Goudy?
Frederic W. Goudy was a prolific American type designer whose typefaces include Copperplate Gothic, Kennerly, and Goudy Old Style. In 1938 he also designed University of California Old Style, for the sole proprietary use of the University of California Press. The Lanston Monotype Company released a version of this typeface as Californian for wider distribution in 1956, while ITC created a digital version, called ITC Berkeley, in 1983.
Famous Quotes:
- Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep
- Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.
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- Born
- Mar 8, 1865
Bloomington - Also known as
- Frederick W. Goudy
- Frederic W. Goudy
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- May 11, 1947
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on July 23, 2013
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