Folks,
My boys at the letterpress museum are putting together a specimen book of all the hand-set metal fonts they own. They have identified all sorts, except this one—it is the last one! Does anyone have any ideas? It will make a lot of retired letterpress enthusiasts very, very happy.
—K
It’s shown as Goudy Cursive in the Dover ’Swash Letter Alphabets’ book.
- Mike Yanega
There’s also the Lanston version. It would have to be used in conjunction with the non-cursive italic font, but it offers LOTS of wonderful alternates.
Mac McGrew’s book ’American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century’ shows this as Goudy Cursive too. Says it was designed by him for ATF in 1916, as an expansion of Goudy Italic. The sample in the book appears to show that some of the letters in your posted sample (A, K and N) were alternate characters in the typeface.
- Mike Yanega
Goudy Cursive was meant to combine with either Goudy Oldstyle Italic or Goudy 38 Italic. (Goudy 38 is also called Goudy Oldstyle Light) I digitized this as Goudy Oldstyle Cursive. The Lanston version of Goudy Oldstyle and Oldstyle Bold have all the alternates in the Pro versions of the italic fonts.
Woah, thanks guys! I’ll pass this info on.
Have a good day.
—K
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