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Bertham

A typeface made in 1936 by Frederic Goudy. D.J.R. Bruckner: In May 1936, Laurence Siegfried, editor of The American Printer, asked Goudy for an article on his one-hundredth typeface. Goudy said that the ninety-eighth and ninety-ninth were not done (his word) at the time, but he set to work on this one, named for his wife Bertha M. who had died the year before, and finished it in sixteen days. He based it on a book set in type derived from one used by Leonard Holle to print the Geographica of Ptolemy at Ulm in 1482. Since the Ashendene Press had been using a tvpe made by Emery Walker based on the Holle types, it can be assumed Goudy referred to that face.

Digital versions: Bertham Pro (2009, Ascender).

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