Font In Use Original colophon for the only known book to use "Aries" Packaging for Goudy CD

Links Goudy & Monotype Frederic W. Goudy and his work at the Lanston Monotype company. The Aries Press Partial Article for Western New York Heritage magazine. The Cary Collection A large collection of Goudy material is included in this archive of printing arts.

Frederic Goudy's poor memory The story of his Aries type face. Frederic Goudy designed Aries in 1925-26 as a commissioned private press typeface and cast it in one size, approximately 16 point. Like the William Morris Troy type, Aries is a stylized roman with blackletter characteristics. It was partially inspired by Subiaco, a type created in 1900 by Emery Walker for the Ashendene Press. Walker had based his work on a type of the same name designed in 1465 by...read the rest