I’ve never really liked Berkeley, I wouldn’t really consider it sedate, especially with the victorian crossbar on the e. I had a client once who’s identity guidelines required Berkeley Old Style set at 85% width with -40 tracking. It was beyond painful to read. By contrast, the regualar setting of started to look really nice. They also used Avenir with 115% width. Anyway, the “Pro” version just looks like they bundled it up into opentype format.

Does Tony Stan remind anyone else of Iron Man?

Look to P22, Lanston’s “Californian” for authenticty.

Gerald Giampa

I would prefer Lanston’s or Font Bureau’s Californian to ITC Berkeley, but the work requires Berkeley, so that’s what I’m using.

I don’t mind Berkeley so much — to me it has an 80’s vibe, makes me think of Roger Black’s story on magazine layout in U&lc. And I use the word “sedate” because it’s much more homogenized than the real Goudy font — not nearly as unique.

This is the first time it’s had small caps and osf, right?

I have seen Berkeley used very successfully.

I think more ’sedate’ is accurate, and that can be good or bad depending on what you want. If you want something with that Goudy warmth but less assertive—with the slanted ’e’—then Berkeley is good. It is well drawn and sets very smoothly.

By the way, the slanted crossbar is not Victorian, but Renaissance—Jenson.