page_title: List of typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy
section_title: University of California Old Style
hierarchical_section_title: List of typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy / 1935 to 1938 / University of California Old Style
caption_attribution_description: English: Frederic Goudy's University of California Old Style typeface in regular and italic styles, compared to two digitisations: Californian FB and Berkeley Old Style Medium. The sample images are from Goudy's memoir, "A Half-Century of Type Design and Typography", which is in the public domain (copyright not renewed). Spacing is manually adjusted to match the metal type. The quote is part of a short text presenting Goudy's famous quote "The old fellows stole all of our best ideas," humorously exemplifying his belief in the continued primacy of old-style serif designs.
context_page_description: 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 revivalist printers such as William Morris. Eric Sloane, who was his neighbour as a boy, recalled that he also took inspiration from hand-painted signs. He also developed a number of typefaces influenced by blackletter medieval manuscripts, illuminated manuscript capitals and Roman square capitals carved into stone. This means that several of his most famous designs such as Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Stout are unusual deviations from his normal style.
  Goudy's taste matched a trend of the period, in which a preference for using mechanical, geometric Didone fonts introduced in the eighteenth and nineteenth century was being displaced by a revival of interest in the 'old-style' serif fonts developed before this, a change that has proved to be lasting, especially in book body text.
context_section_description: Goudy's 'California' font (1938, Continental) was cut for the University of California Press. It is a 'Venetian' typeface, loosely inspired by the work of Nicolas Jenson. One of Goudy's most popular designs, several releases exist.
  After the original type was commissioned for private use, 'California' was released publicly by different companies, first in 1958, by Lanston Monotype as 'Californian' and then famously under the name of 'Berkeley Old Style' by ITC.
  In digital versions, 'California' was released by ITC under its pre-existing brand, as 'Californian' by LTC and Font Bureau (in different digitisations) and by Richard Beatty under the name of 'University Old Style'.
caption: University of California Old Style in regular and italic styles, compared to two digitisations: Californian FB and ITC Berkeley Old Style Medium
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