Italian Old Style

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Italian Old Style A Venetian typeface designed by Frederic Goudy in 1924. Mac McGrew: Italian Old Style was designed by Frederic W. Goudy for Lanston Monotype in 1924. It is based on early Venetian types of the latter part of the fifteenth century. Bruce Rogers, in a handsome booklet introducing the face, says it "reminds me most strongly and admirably of Ratdolt's fine Roman." However, Goudy says this was not the source. Goudy also says he persuaded Monotype to cut this original rendition rather than copy ATF's Cloister Oldstyle, which was quite popular then, and which was based on similar sources. This typeface is a little more delicate and individual than Cloister, and is larger in relation to the body size, but makes a very distinctive and impressive page. Compare Centaur. Italian Old Style Wide was drawn by Sol Hess, also in 1924. It is slightly heavier and substantially wider than Goudy's design. Berry, Johnson and Jaspert relate Goudy's face to Phinney's Jenson: [Italian Old Style was] designed originally as Jenson by Jos W. Phinney for American Typefounders. This type resembles Veronese, in colour, in its slab serifs and short ascenders and descenders. But the serifs on the tops of ascenders extend both sides of the main strokes. The italic is the roman inclined, even the a preserving the two-storeyed form, p and q are without foot serifs, the k has an enclosed, angular bowl. The Italian Old Style of F.W. Goudy is another recutting of Jenson, made for the Lanston Monotype. It has an unusual italic with some swash capitals. Typefaces like Goudy's Italian Old Style. The most direct digital revivals are Italian Old Style (Monotype), LTC Italian Old Style (2007-2001, Lanston Type Company), Goudy Italian Old Style (1992, Richard Beatty), and Monotype Italian Old Style (Adobe).	EXTERNAL LINKS MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Frederic William Goudy ⦿ Venetian or antiqua typefaces ⦿

file name: Frederic Goudy Italian Old Style 1924

file name: Frederic Goudy Italian Old Style Italic 1924

file name: Stephenson Blake Italian Old Style

file name: Stephenson Blake Charles Reed Italian Old Style 14 24pt

file name: Stephenson Blake Charles Reed Italian Old Style

file name: Stephenson Blake Charles Reed Lining Italian Old Style Italic

file name: Richard Beatty Goudy Italian Old Style 1992 after Frederic Goudy

file name: Frederic Goudy Italian Old Style 1924 Poster by Bruce Rogers

file name: Lanston Italian Old Style 1924

file name: Paul Hunt James Grieshaber L T C Italian Old Style Pro 2007 2011 after Frederic Goudy Italian Old Style 1924

file name: Paul Hunt James Grieshaber L T C Italian Old Style Pro 2007 2011 after Frederic Goudy Italian Old Style 1924b

file name: Paul Hunt James Grieshaber L T C Italian Old Style Pro 2007 2011 after Frederic Goudy Italian Old Style 1924c

file name: Paul Hunt James Grieshaber L T C Italian Old Style Pro 2007 2011 after Frederic Goudy Italian Old Style 1924d

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