"Many of Goudy's
designs are still very popular today."
"His best and most popular types are Goudy Old Style and Goudy Text."
"Goudy was greatly inspired by 15th century typographers, such as Garamond."
"Goudy was the third most prolific designer of metal type in the United States, behind Morris Fuller Benton and R. Hunter Middleton."
Contemporaries
Goudy inspired such typesetting giants as
William A. Dwiggins, Oswald Cooper, and R. Hunter Middleton...
Morris Fuller Benton (1872-1948)
The unknown father of American type design and the person behind American Type founders' type development program for over 35 years, along with Fred Goudy and Ed Benguiat, Benton was one of America's most prolific type designers.
Emil Rudolf Weiss (1875-1943)
A leading German typographer, designer, and calligrapher, Emil Weiss was associated with the Bauer foundry in the 1930s and 1940s. His best-known design is the Memphis family.
Rudolf Koch (1876-1934)
Koch was primarily a calligrapher and teacher, but his association with the Klingspor type foundry in Germany provided the opportunity for a number of his designs to be made into fonts of type. Most famous for his sans serif design Kabel, he is also reponsible for several other typefaces that have been made into digital fonts.
Lucian Bernhard (1885-1972)
Lucian Bernhard never owned an automobile, radio, television, or any other electrical appliance. He was a avid tango dancer and world-class admirer of women. Bernhard began designing typefaces as a young man in Germany. His first was cut in 1910. From then on he designed a typeface a year until he came to America in 1922 to work with American Type Founders, where he produced thirteen typefaces.
Paul Renner (187-1956)
Creator of the first modern, geometric sans serif face: Futura. Although not a member of the Bauhaus, Renner shared its ideals and believed that a modern models, rather than be a revival of previous a design. His original renderings for Futura's lowercase were much more experiential and geometric in character than those finally released by the Bauer foundry.
William Addison Dwiggins (1880-1956)
An American graphic, typographic, and book designer, Dwiggins designed the typefaces Caledonia, Eldorado, Electra, Falcon and Metro for Mergenthaler Linotype. Dwiggins' self-imposed challeged in all his type designs was create beautiful and utilitalian typefaces for machine composition.
Eric Gill (1882-1940)
An English sculptor, stonecutter, artist, and type designer, Gill's most important work, and his only sans, is Gill sans. Other designs include Joanna, Perpetua, and Pilgrim. Gill is also well-known for his radical political beliefs and sexual adventures.
Victor Hammer (1882-1967)
Printer, painter, graphic artist, architect, sculptor, teacher, publisher and type designer Victor Hammer created American Uncial, his most famous design, in 1943.
Ozwald Cooper (1879-1940)
Primarily a lettering artist and graphic designer, Ozwald Cooper was responsible for designing a number of advertising display typefaces. All his type designs are patterned after his hand lettering. His best-known typeface Coopeer Black, started the twentieth-century trend in ultrabold typefaces and has been called a "design for farsighted printers and nearsighted readers."
Stanley Morison (1889-1967)
Though not a type designer, lettering artist, or calligrapher, Stanley Morison was one of the most influential figures in modern British typography. As typographical advisor th the Monotype Corp. for more than twenty-five years, he was reponsible for the release of such classic designs as Rockwell, Gil sans, Perpetua, Albertus, and–perhaps his most successful face–Times New Roman.
