I’ve made 14-point Goudy Oldstyle roman with a bunch of the usual characters and also small caps. It’s in the midst of spacing and kerning, which is really one step and not that terrible, using my fontforge scripts, but it is a little bothersome anyway because of the frequent need to select anchor points (which I use to define a kind of spacing outline for each glyph). This hurts my left wrist. OTOH I got George Williams to stick a special feature in fontforge to make bezier drawing more accessible, but I shouldn’t describe the new feature because he doesn’t like it or want people to use it. Maybe if you show me your Medicare card I’ll describe it in secret. (It’s an ugly hack to let me define some special shortcut keys that are easier for me to press on my DataHand without pain.)

I scanned Goudy Title tonight from the 1923 American Type Founders specimen book (the famous big blue one) so that I can avoid having to blow up my text letters when making a promotional picture. In a way that’s unpleasant, because ATF just took the basic roman and italic from Goudy for a fixed fee, and then Morris Fuller Benton expanded it into a whole series; so Goudy was sort of ripped off, having wanted to do that himself; but OTOH, if I had to keep one’s portfolio of types but not the other’s, I would keep Benton’s.

I haven’t decided whether to get to work right away on the italic or to go back and work some more on Valley, first.

(And I think day and night about Franta Storm’s ‘Regent’ and the kind of thinking that went into it.)