Posts Tagged ‘Frederic W. Goudy’

When a Student Designs a Typeface

Writing about his profession of type design some 35 years ago, Frederic W. Goudy stated: “Critics, unfamiliar with the classic forms of the past, too frequently mistake details of handling for the essentials of underlying structure, rating highly one design exhibiting some more or less insignificant but flamboyant touch—and rating as mediocre another, of less […]