Sorts Mill Goudy

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Sorts Mill Goudy Regular Italic

About Sorts Mill Goudy

Sorts Mill Goudy is an old-style serif with moderate contrast, a slanted stress in the round letters and softly bracketed serifs. The specimen shows a small lowercase beside generous capitals, a Q whose tail sweeps under the following letter, and numerals that rise and fall like lowercase letters. The official source describes the family as a revival of an old-style typeface by Frederic Goudy, extended to cover more of the Latin alphabet. It comes as two static files, Regular and Italic, both at weight 400; there is no bold and no variable version. The 626 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended, including letters for languages such as Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Turkish. The copyright notice names Barry Schwartz, and the fonts are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Sorts Mill Goudy works

Book pages and long essays in print

A roman with a true italic covers text and emphasis, and old-style figures blend into running sentences.

Invitations, menus and programmes

The sweeping Q, soft serifs and small lowercase give short formal texts a traditional printed look.

Epigraphs and quotations

The Italic file sets a quotation or dedication apart from the roman text around it.

Literary and historical titles

As a revival of a Goudy design, the face fits covers and headings that refer to earlier book printing.

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
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• 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 Sorts Mill Goudy

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 Sorts Mill Goudy 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: "Sorts Mill Goudy";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SortsMillGoudy-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SortsMillGoudy-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Sorts Mill Goudy 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=Sorts+Mill+Goudy:ital,wght@0,400;1,400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No bold

Sorts Mill Goudy has Regular and Italic at weight 400 only. Headings have to be distinguished by size, capitals or italic.

Old-style figures

The numerals in the specimen have ascending and descending forms. They sit well in text and less evenly in tables or prices.

Two static files

The download contains one roman and one italic TTF file. Sorts Mill Goudy is not a variable font.

FAQs

Collections with Sorts Mill Goudy

• Elegant serif fonts for wedding invitations

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

• Old-style and revival serif fonts for books

  Digital revivals of Renaissance, baroque and later book types, and new designs in the old-style tradition, most with italics, for novels, essays and fine printing.

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