Goudy Bookletter 1911

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Goudy Bookletter 1911 Regular

About Goudy Bookletter 1911

Goudy Bookletter 1911 is an old-style serif that Barry Schwartz based on a book typeface by Frederic Goudy. Schwartz notes that while making the font he found that the original letters lock together closely and evenly while needing hardly any kerning, and he points to the bowed strokes of v and w as an example of shapes that claim the space around them. The specimen shows soft, bracketed serifs, moderate contrast, a small lowercase with long ascenders, an ampersand written as a joined E and t, and numerals that rise and fall like lowercase letters. The family is a single Regular file with 303 glyphs and a Latin character set; there is no italic or bold. The source catalogue lists it as a display serif, though the forms are those of a book face. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Goudy Bookletter 1911 works

Book titles and chapter openers

The close natural fit of the letters gives a title page the even texture of early book printing.

Quotations and epigraphs

Old-style figures blend dates and numbers into a line of lowercase without standing out.

Invitations with a literary tone

Bracketed serifs and the E-t ampersand set names and a short text in a traditional manner.

Labels for craft goods

A single careful roman suits a wine, tea or stationery label that needs one line of classic type.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Goudy Bookletter 1911

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Goudy Bookletter 1911 on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/GoudyBookletter1911-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Goudy Bookletter 1911 with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Goudy+Bookletter+1911&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Roman only

The family has one style, Regular 400. Without an italic, titles of works and emphasis in running text cannot be marked in the usual way.

Numerals are old-style by default

In the specimen 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 drop below the baseline and 6 and 8 rise above the lowercase. They do not align in tables.

A revival, not an original design

The official notes state that the font is based on a typeface by Frederic Goudy; Barry Schwartz made the digital version.

FAQs

Collections with Goudy Bookletter 1911

• Elegant serif fonts for wedding invitations

  Light, high-contrast and classical serif typefaces for invitation text, names in capitals and formal stationery.

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