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Version 2010.07.04 (as of 4 July 2010). Now includes TrueType.This font is based on Kennerley Old Style, which was designed by Frederic Goudy in 1911 for a collection of H G Wells stories, The Door in the Wall and Other Stories, which was published by Mitchell Kennerley.
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This is absolutely wonderful. Is it available in bold or italic?
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P22's commercial version does: [link]
The italic wouldn't mix well with mine, though the bold might.
Originally I wanted to do the italic, but I got bored. 
I have never yet completed a boldface; in my own life I tend to find searching for a different solution than boldface more rewarding than making a boldface.
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What a delight! I was handling an old Roycrofter book ([link] oh god so hot) the other day set in Kennerly and was instantly seduced. This font is a wonderful interpretation for digital use and I'm so glad to have found you 
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Iβve had the font features on Smashing Magazine three times, I think, so I finally decided that people really liked it.
Kennerley IMO is especially pleasing if one experiences the manner in which the letters fit together. This is something that the old Monotype catalogs described as the letters seeming to βlockβ to each other, but in digital type it comes to this: there is very little need for kerning. See how the letters kind of spread their shoulders out and occupy the space provided to them.
I have done some work on a new version done from my own high-res scans of foundry specimens on coated paper, but I donβt think people will like it as much (except the open caps), and so I will give it a different name. But Iβm not a very productive designer, anyway, so who knows what will happen?
BTW Goudy designed Forum capitals to go with Kennerley and there is an existing free version here: [link]
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Ooooh HG Wells always had the best fonts. Ever. Thanks for sharing this.
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No problem, I make βem for sharing.
Is that true about Wells and typefaces?
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Yes, he must have been into typography, because he used wonderful serifs such as Goudy for the text in his books, but his book covers are sans-serif art! Seriously, if you were to google image search his books you would surely see them. Lovely use of color & typefaces. Geometric sans-serifs was what he usually used on cover designs, and they were really quite lovely to look at. Some of my favorites.
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The first-edition covers linked to from his Wikipedia page seem mostly hand-lettered in various styles.
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You know what, it is hard to find them but here are a few (My sister is a "book enthusiasts" and collects books so that is how I knew of these)
But yes, the sans were not as common but there seemed to be a period where many covers used a sans font. either way many of his old/first edition era works are lovely, with nice typefaces and printers ornaments.
Here are some: [link] [link] [link]
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Well, the second one looks like Avant Garde Gothic, and so probably was printed in the 1970s, and couldn't have been printed any earlier. The first one looks hand-lettered to me; the subtitle is lettered how I learned to do it in drafting class about 25 years ago. (Ugh!)
The Penguin cover looks like Gill Sans, which makes sense for a British publisher. I would be curious in what year the book was designed, to have an idea of whether it was before or after Jan Tschichold helped Penguin redesign their books.
I collect old books a bit, but for the typefaces so I can scan them.
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Well I'm not the book enthusiast, my sister is lol, which is where I became familiar with these covers. I am the sapling-type-enthusiast, and I see I had my book details wrong
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I have been reading a lot about about book printing the last couple of years, but I recognize 1970s style from having been there.
I do have a whole lot of old books, bookcases full of them, but I collected most of them in the β90s for reasons other than an interest in printing. It was more of a reading things to find oneself.
(Eric Gill of Gill Sans fame was a real weirdo BTW. Google will turn up information about him, but also Iβve read his 'Essay on Typography' and it's the writing of a weirdo.
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I want to clarify... the digital art I was referring to is not a font. Digital art/type poster, just typographic art, is what i meant by making the (English) alphabet in chronological order... just incase there was any ocnfusion lol... I am a geek 
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I could learn a thing or two, plus I just took another gander at your gallery... Super stuff. Love "g" on my way to fave it.
I am just starting an alphabet series of digital art, (literally I have my graphic design software open and font manager, I plan on making the letters in chronological order because I am terribly disorganized so I have to put boundaries on myself or I will never get anything done, been seeking the 'A' or 'a' I want to use!) surely wont create something as lovely as your g, but I love letters so the project commences! Anyhow, nice to make your acquaintance. ~Lauren
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Hi!
The "g" has changed a lot since that version, which was too visible. I'm learning a serendipitous trick for designing text fonts, that if I print a page and then have more difficulty finding the letter I'm working on, I'm getting somewhere (up to a point).
The people over at Typophile.com can talk type all day. It's too much type-talk for me, though.
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Heh, yeah I know what you mean about font design critiques, it's a highly charged subject matter for many.
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I'm not sure it's the overstrong opinionation, but literally that it causes a flare-up in obsessive-compulsive behavior, and that leads to compulsive work that makes my fibromyalgia act up more.
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Hello! 
You have been featured in my journal [link] and in this news article [link]
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Letterspacing blackletter, right? Baaa!
Very nice work done on this font.
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Another Goudy Text spacer: [link]
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Goudy Text, in fact!
Thanks for the compliment.
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I take it you also speak English, so...
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I do know a little English. I guess the translation must be sbiro = kruela policisto = cruel police officer = pig. (I had looked up sbiro in the 2005 Plena Ilustrita Vortaro.)
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