Deepdene Roman was cut by Goudy in 1927 for his own
Village
Letter Foundery. An italic (with swash alts for
‘gkzABCDEGMPRT’) followed the next year, with the matrices for the
first trial size cut by his wife, Bertha M. Goudy. Adopted by
Monotype. Deepdene was designed in 1931. Bold and Bold
Italic were designed in 1932/1933 for Monotype, and released in
1934. [McGrew 1993]
New Village Text (1938) was a combination of
Tory
Text capitals with lowercase characters from
Deepdene Text. [Reichardt 2011]
Digitized as URW Deepdene and LTC
Deepdene (Jim Rimmer, Colin Kahn). Both
versions include Roman w/ small caps, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic.
Only the latter has the alternates and ligatures. See also
Linden Hill (2010), an Open Source
digitization by More…
Deepdene Roman was cut by Goudy in 1927 for his own Village Letter Foundery. An italic (with swash alts for ‘gkzABCDEGMPRT’) followed the next year, with the matrices for the first trial size cut by his wife, Bertha M. Goudy. Adopted by Monotype. Deepdene was designed in 1931. Bold and Bold Italic were designed in 1932/1933 for Monotype, and released in 1934. [McGrew 1993]
New Village Text (1938) was a combination of Tory Text capitals with lowercase characters from Deepdene Text. [Reichardt 2011]
Digitized as URW Deepdene and LTC Deepdene (Jim Rimmer, Colin Kahn). Both versions include Roman w/ small caps, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic. Only the latter has the alternates and ligatures. See also Linden Hill (2010), an Open Source digitization by Barry Schwartz in roman and italic styles.
