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This category contains typefaces in the old style serif classification, including both Venetian and Garalde varieties. These faces date back to 1465 and are reminiscent of the humanist calligraphy. This is not for any "old" typeface, such as old English or Fraktur. For that, please see Category:Blackletter typefaces.
Miller & Richard's original specimen for their Old Style fonts, in a mock-traditional style with the long s and archaic ligatures. [1]Old Style, later referred to as modernised old style, was the name given to a series of serif typefaces cut from the mid-nineteenth century and sold by the type foundry Miller & Richard, of Edinburgh in Scotland.
The following is a list of typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy.. Goudy was one of America's most prolific designers of metal type. He worked under the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement, and many of his designs are old-style serif designs inspired by the relatively organic structure of typefaces created between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, following the lead of earlier ...
Goudy Old Style (also known as just Goudy) is an old-style serif typeface originally created by Frederic W. Goudy for American Type Founders (ATF) in 1915.. Suitable for text and display applications, Goudy Old Style matches the historicist trend of American printing in the early twentieth century, taking inspiration from the printing of the Italian Renaissance without a specific historical model.
Bookman evolved from fonts known as Old Style Antique, released around 1869. These were created as a bold version of the "Old Style" typeface, which had been cut by Alexander Phemister around the 1850s for the Miller & Richard foundry and become a standard, popular book typeface.
Kennerley Old Style is a serif typeface designed by Frederic Goudy. [2] Kennerley is a Venetian " old-style " serif design, with an organic structure loosely influenced by Italian and Dutch printing traditions of the Renaissance and early modern period and low stroke contrast giving a feeling of roundness and softness. [ 3 ]
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In the history of Western typography, humanist minuscule gained prominence as a basis for the typesetter's roman typeface, as it was standardized by Aldus Manutius, who introduced his revolutionary italic typeface based on the chancery hand in Venice, 1501, and practiced by designer-printers Nicolas Jenson and Francesco Griffo, respectively ...