Study of Goudy Oldstyle

MONOTYPE GOUDY             This typeface is an old style type. The aspects that show this are the angle of the weight stress on rounded forms, the shape and style of the serifs, and the angle of the top serifs on the lowercase letter forms. Old style typesets are influenced by carved Roman capitals for the uppercase letter forms and fifteenth- century humanistic writing styles for the lowercase.             Goudy is a serif typeface. It has thin tapered …

…stem whereas all the of the other letters with vertical stems do not have this curve. Third, the round form on the uppercase P does not complete into the vertical stem. Goudy is a classic typeface. It portrays a time past. It has a warm feeling . It is also a timeless type that will probably always be used in some application. It is very readable. Even at small sizes it does not loose it legibility.