Ocupation: Type designer
Life: March 8, 1865 - May 11, 1947
Birthday: March 8
Death: May 11
When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all.
source: Frederic William Goudy (1940). “Typologia: Studies in Type Design & Type Making, with Comments on the Invention of Typography, the First Types, Legibility, and Fine Printing”, p.43, Univ of California Press
topic: Running, Perfect, Design, Letters Of The Alphabet, Fonts, Typefaces