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“The type he selected for The Travels of Marco Polo is Goudy Modern, which was designed by Frederic W. Goudy, the most famous of American type designers and the most prolific designer of typelaces in printing history. In his more than forty years of activity, he created more than a hundred alphabets, of which many connoisseurs of the graphic arts consider Goudy Modern to be his most distinctive.”
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“For it derives from no historical antecedent; it is not a copy of a type once done by Jenson; it is not a tracing of a type once done for Dr. Fell. It has the crispness of modern times. Each letter is sharp, clear, graceful. And it is rich black in color, which means that it holds its own on a page embellished with a Lapshin /Kredel illustration.”
Issued to the members of the heritage club
Norfolk, Connecticut
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@deinol First time I heard someone go that hard for Goudy Modern.