[Sheet of drawings for Frederic Goudy's Friar type] – Vintage Wall Art
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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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A window into the past: [Sheet of drawings for Frederic Goudy's Friar type], preserved in this historic drawing. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Sheet of drawings for Frederic Goudy's Friar type]
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Rather than a finished page, this item is a sheet of working drawings for Frederic Goudy's Friar typeface, showing letterforms sketched out before they could be cut into metal type. Goudy, one of the most prolific American type designers of the twentieth century, typically drew his letters by hand and refined them over many revisions before a face went to the foundry or the Monotype machine. Sheets like this reveal the designer's decisions about curves, spacing, and proportion. The caption card records no date, so the sheet's exact origin is unknown, but it offers a direct look at how a typeface took shape on paper.
| Medium | 1 item. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [no date recorded on caption card] |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,118 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-171116 |
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