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Kaatskill

Frederic Goudy's Kaatskill was designed in 1929 for Lanston Monotype. This beautiful old style figures font was originally done for an edition of Washington Irving's Rip van Winkle. Mac McGrew: Kaatskill is a private typeface designed and cut by Frederic W. Goudy for use in an edition of Rip Van Winkle which he made for The Limited Editions Club, in 1929. Goudy says that what he had in mind was merely to design a type "as simple, legible, vigorous, clear, and effective in detail as could, and which would at the same time show no note of strangeness in the mass. ...I feel that Kaatskill owes nothing in its design to any existing face. and the type therefore is as truly an American type as anything so hidebound by tradition as type can be." It is named for the Catskill mountains, which were the locale of Goudy's home and workshop as well as of the story. See Trajan Title.

Digital revivals:

• LTC Kaatskill (2006, Lanston Type Company). This face was one of the first digital typefaces released by the Lanston Type Co. Ltd in 1988. Jim Rimmer did a faithful revival. Goudy had never designed a specific italic to accompany this face. The italic completed by Rimmer is a variation on Deepdene Italic. The font set was re-mastered in 2006 by Colin Kahn.

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