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Camelot
An art nouveau-era typeface made in 1896 by Frederic Goudy. D.J.R. Bruckner: This is the first tvpe attributed to Goudy based on letters he drew and sent to the Dickinson Tvpe Foundry. He made only the capitals, and the foundry men added a lower case. McGrew states: Camelot or Camelot Oldstyle was the first typeface designed by Frederic W. Goudy. He offered it to Dickinson Type Foundry (part of ATF) in Boston, which accepted it and sent him $10, twice what he had modestly asked for it. This was in 1896; it was apparently cut and released the following year as drawn, without lowercase. In February 1900 a design patent was issued in the names of Goudy and Joseph W. Phinney, and assigned to ATF. Phinney was a well-known designer for Dickinson-ATF, and apparently it was he who added the lowercase alphabet. Its success encouraged Goudy to make a distinguished career of type designing, and this typeface was included in ATF specimen books as late as 1941. Compare Canterbury. Digital typefaces: LTC Camelot (Lanston, 2007), Pettiford JNL (Jeff Levine, 2020). |
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file name: Frederic Goudy Camelot 1896
file name: Frederic W Goudy Camelot Oldstyle 1896
file name: Frederic W Goudy Camelot Oldstyle 1896b
file name: Jeff Levine Pettiford J N L 2020
file name: Lanston L T C Camelot 2007 123215
file name: Lanston L T C Camelot 2007
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