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Goethe and Goethe Italic

A typeface pair designed by Frederic Goudy in 1932. D.J.R. Bruckner: Goethe was drawn for a specimen Goudy sent, at request of the organizing committee, to the Goethe Centenary Exhibition in Leipzig. "In the main," he said, it was "a lighter version, with slight changes and refinements, of Goudy Modern." Walter Tracy of English Monotype has found this face reminiscent of the late eighteenth-centurv Binny and Ronaldson type used by Daniel Berkeley Updike in "Printing Types: Their History, Form and Use." His question is apt. About Goethe Italic: The companion type to Goethe. It was used in the Limited Editions Club's Frankenstein, where its eminent qualities as a book face are apparent.

Mac McGrew: Goethe is essentially a lighter version of Goudy Modern, with slight changes and refinements. Frederic W. Goudy, the designer, says, "It was drawn and cut specially to print a specimen I contributed to the Goethe Centenary Exhibition held in Leipzig in 1932." The italic was cut the following year "for use in the Limited Editions Club edition of Frankenstein, for which I had cut the 12- and 14-point sizes of the roman especially." Goethe has been called "a blending of modern and old style characteristics which produces a distinctively new result."

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