GOUDY POSTERS
Frederic W. Goudy, one of the most popular and prolific American type designers, was born on March 8, 1865 in Springfield, Illinois. He produced his first typeface design in 1896,a display face called Camelot. He sold the first set of letters for $10 to the Dickinson Type Foundry. He would go on to create a total of 124 different type faces. In 1897 Goudy married a bookkeeper named Bertha M. Sprinks. By 1900 , Goudy took on a position as an instructor of lettering, beginning a lifetime of teaching that inspired such typesetting giants as William A. Dwiggins , Oswald Coooper , and R. Hunter Middleton.. In 1903 , he and Will H. Ransom founded the Village Press in Park Ridge, Illinois.&n
Frederic W. Goudy, one of the most popular and prolific American type designers, was born on March 8, 1865 in Springfield, Illinois. He produced his first typeface design in 1896,a display face called Camelot. He sold the first set of letters for $10 to the Dickinson Type Foundry. He would go on to create a total of 124 different type faces. In 1897 Goudy married a bookkeeper named Bertha M. Sprinks. By 1900 , Goudy took on a position as an instructor of lettering, beginning a lifetime of teaching that inspired such typesetting giants as William A. Dwiggins , Oswald Coooper , and R. Hunter Middleton.. In 1903 , he and Will H. Ransom founded the Village Press in Park Ridge, Illinois.&n
