[Frederic] Goudy working on drawings for his University of California Old Style design – Historic Reproduction
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures [Frederic] Goudy working on drawings for his University of California Old Style design in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Frederic] Goudy working on drawings for his University of California Old Style design
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Frederic Goudy, the American type designer, is shown at work on drawings for his University of California Old Style typeface, a design he created around 1939 and 1940 for the University Press at Berkeley. Goudy spent much of his career sketching letterforms by hand before they were cut into metal type, and this photograph captures that slow, deliberate stage of the process. Goudy, who ran the Village Press and designed dozens of typefaces, was among the most prolific American type designers of the twentieth century. The picture is a useful record of how a typeface took shape at the drawing board.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | ca. 1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,222 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-136345 |
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