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Collier Old Style
A typeface made in 1919 by Frederic Goudy. D.J.R. Bruckner: Even Robert Wiebking, who cut the matrices, thought this type was odd. In 1909 Goudy had seen in the South Kensington Museum in London a page printed bv Palme Isingrin in Basle in 1534 that had a peculiar serif on the lower case d. Goudy assumed the serif had been damaged, but he found it interesting and designed an entire face based on it. It was made for Allen Collier of the Procter and Collier advertising agency in Cincinnati, which represented the Procter and Gamble Company. It is a precursor of Goudy Antique, begun in the same year. Mac McGrew about Collier Old Style: Collier Old Style was designed by Frederic W. Goudy in 1919 as a private type for Proctor&Collier, a Cincinnati advertising agency, which had its own printing plant. Matrices were engraved by Robert Wiebking. Goudy has remarked that this typeface "seemed to me to give a quality akin to that given by William Morris's Golden type without, however, imitating that famous letter." Fonts were apparently cast for Goudy by ATF, for these matrices were among those given by ATF to the Graphic Arts Division of the Smithsonian Institution in 1970, and used for a special revival casting in 1982 by the Out of Sorts Letter Foundery. |
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file name: Frederic Goudy Collier Old Style 1919
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