{"id":7738,"date":"2011-05-27T11:34:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T16:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=7738"},"modified":"2017-11-13T02:45:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T21:45:51","slug":"a-salute-fredric-w-goudy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/a-salute-fredric-w-goudy\/","title":{"rendered":"A salute | Fredric W. Goudy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7739\" title=\"Fredric_Goudy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fredric_Goudy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"642\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Bloomington, Illinois<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederic_Goudy\" target=\"_blank\">Fredric W. Goudy<\/a><em> (sometimes also written as &#8216;Frederic&#8217;) <\/em>was a master craftsman and an &#8220;American legend of type design,&#8221; a man of humble beginnings who started his career at the late age of almost 40. At the time of his death at the age of 82 (in 1947) he had 127 typeface designs to his credit\u2014a list of typefaces designed by Goudy is available <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_typefaces_designed_by_Frederic_Goudy\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0Read an interesting, in-depth magazine article about Goudy in the April, 1942 issue of <em>Popular Science<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.modernmechanix.com\/2006\/09\/01\/type-by-goudy\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">The graphic above is from a promotion piece published by International Papers that&#8217;s been kicking around our design studio for quite a few years (illustrator\/designer unknown).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomington, Illinois Fredric W. Goudy (sometimes also written as &#8216;Frederic&#8217;) was a master craftsman and an &#8220;American legend of type design,&#8221; a man of humble beginnings who started his career at the late age of almost 40. At the time of his death at the age of 82 (in 1947) he had 127 typeface designs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,16,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15539,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738\/revisions\/15539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}