Bedtime music, pt. 153; body-text fonts, pt. 13: Goudy Old Style
Samuel has been asking to listen to Michael Stearns on Spotify, in the basement, late at night.
He curls up in an armchair, wraps himself in a blanket, and goes to sleep.
It’s cute, but he is becoming a quite heavy sack of potatoes. I’d rather not make a habit of carrying him up the stairs to his bed.
Tonight, both children are extremely wild and violent.
Meanwhile, in Florida …
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
This is Goudy, one of the “diamond-dot” fonts (look at the semicolons, colons, periods, etc. – well, maybe you can’t tell from this screenshot).
It’s especially useful in tight spaces, e.g. in narrow columns or where there is little distance between successive lines of text. Harper’s Magazine, which has been set in Goudy for many years, has got the best-looking body text of the famous magazines, better-looking even than The New Yorker’s.
A free variant, available in the roman and italic styles – but not in boldface – is Sorts Mill Goudy.
He curls up in an armchair, wraps himself in a blanket, and goes to sleep.
It’s cute, but he is becoming a quite heavy sack of potatoes. I’d rather not make a habit of carrying him up the stairs to his bed.
Tonight, both children are extremely wild and violent.
Meanwhile, in Florida …
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
This is Goudy, one of the “diamond-dot” fonts (look at the semicolons, colons, periods, etc. – well, maybe you can’t tell from this screenshot).
It’s especially useful in tight spaces, e.g. in narrow columns or where there is little distance between successive lines of text. Harper’s Magazine, which has been set in Goudy for many years, has got the best-looking body text of the famous magazines, better-looking even than The New Yorker’s.
A free variant, available in the roman and italic styles – but not in boldface – is Sorts Mill Goudy.
