Kennerley

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Kennerley Kennerley is a Venetian typeface family designed by Frederic Goudy in 1911 (Kennerley Old Style, Kennerley Open Capitals), 1918 (Kennerley Old Style Italic) and 1924 (Kennerley Bold and Bold Italic). Mac McGrew on Kennerley Old Style: Like many types designed by Frederic W. Goudy, Kennerley was executed in response to a particular need. In 1911, Mitchell Kennerley, a New York publisher, asked Goudy to design a book, The Door in the Wall, by H. G. Wells [the father of science fiction]. Goudy had some trial pages set in Caston Oldstyle-Goudy refers to it as Caston Old Face, but a reproduced example is the looser Caston Oldstyle. If Goudy or Kennerley had used the tighter English version of Caslon, perhaps this typeface would not have been designed. But as the effect did not satisfy Goudy, he obtained the publisher's permission to design and cut a new typeface which he would later cast and attempt to sell to "discriminating printers" to recoup at least part of the expense of producing it. Kennerley, named for the publisher, has much less contrast and angularity than Caslon, and sets very compactly, giving a solid appearance to a page. It far exceeded Goudy's expectations for popularity, and he gradually added other sizes for his own sales. In 1920 he sold reproduction rights in this country to Lanston Monotype. Meanwhile, in 1915 Goudy had drawn a companion italic (it was shown in that year, although Goudy later gave the date as 1918). [...] Sol Hess provided Kennerley Open Capitals for Lanston in 1925 by opening each letter with a white line. In 1924 Goudy designed bold and bold italic for Kennerley, at the request of Monotype. Goudy was never enthusiastic about bold typefaces, but says, "I think I kept the Kennerley character in my bold rendition as well as could have been done." The lowercase of this typeface was later used with Hadriano capitals. Intertype adapted Kennerley to its machine in 1923, first announcing it under the same name. A little later this name was changed to Kenntonian. Digital versions: LTC Kennerley (Lanston Type Company), Kennerley BQ (Berthold), TCKingsley (Steve Jackaman, 1999), Kennerley (1991, Richard Beatty). MyFonts link for Michell Kennerley.	EXTERNAL LINKS MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Frederic William Goudy ⦿ Venetian or antiqua typefaces ⦿