Typophile

req: berkeley

Joe Brown

Would appreciate any samples of Berkeley in usage as a body or display face.
hope this is the right forum.

The right room is “Design”

Hi Joseph

Well did you want Berkeley, which is just a rather pale ITC imitation of Fred Goudy’s University of California Oldstyle, or did you want the real thing?

As the Lanston site will tell you, this one was commissioned for a book by Goudy called Typologia. As I happen to own a copy, I can tell you that it appears very differently on paper than it does on the screen. Goudy set it large as a text face, about 14pt, with only an extra point of leading and a 27 pica column width.

Gosh but it’s beautiful. I’

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