Thought this might be of interest to history buffs.
I recently unearthed several samples sheets (very poor copies of original) from one of Lanston Monotype’s promotional pieces from 1924.
It’s for Italian Old Style by Frederic W. Goudy, with specimen samples of the Roman and Italic faces, and a price sheet for type caster matrices.
This PDF includes the Italian Old Style cover, Roman & Italic specimens and price sheet.
The only digitized version I found available is Monotype Italian Old Style Roman which differs in many respects, sort of sterilized, like they took the Italian out.
The Italic is altogether different from Goudy’s version, very much like a standard italic afterthought.
Monotype also added a bold and bold italic weight, though Goudy only designed a Roman and Italic.
It seems that The Lanston Type Company has Italian Old Style on their list of Goudy designs to digitize in the future... let’s hope they do.
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Yes, I’m old, but so what!
