Goudy Old Style font
Goudy Old Style is an old-style serif by Frederic W. Goudy, first issued by American Type Founders in 1915. Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font; elsewhere its digital versions are sold by type foundries, and free revivals of it are below. FontKind hasn’t measured it, so the free fonts below stand beside it by their own description and by class, not by measurement.
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Sorts Mill Goudy
A revival of Frederic Goudy’s Goudy Oldstyle · Google Fonts: Sorts Mill Goudy
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About Goudy Old Style
- Designed by
- Frederic W. GoudySource: Wikipedia: Goudy Old Style
- First issued
- American Type Founders, 1915Source: Wikipedia: Goudy Old Style
- Class
- Old-style serifSource: Wikipedia: Goudy Old Style
- Comes with
- Microsoft 365, as a cloud font: Goudy Old StyleSource: Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office
- Sold by
- Monotype, as Monotype Goudy
- Trademark
- Goudy Old Style is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.Source: Monotype: trademarks
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Goudy Old Style™ is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation. FontKind is not affiliated with The Monotype Corporation, and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Goudy Old Style
Is Goudy Old Style free?
The design is old enough to be revived freely, and free revivals of Goudy Old Style are on this page. Its commercial digital versions are paid (Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font, for Word, PowerPoint and Excel), sold by type foundries. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Goudy Old Style?
Goudy Old Style was designed by Frederic W. Goudy, and first issued by American Type Founders in 1915.
Can I use Goudy Old Style in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, yes, with Microsoft 365: Goudy Old Style is one of its cloud fonts, which Word downloads when you pick it. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Goudy Old Style isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Sorts Mill Goudy, Linden Hill and Crimson Text are there, under More fonts. Canva publishes no list of its fonts: search its font menu, or, with Canva Pro, upload a font whose licence allows it.
What is the closest free alternative to Goudy Old Style?
FontKind hasn’t measured Goudy Old Style: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. The free fonts whose own descriptions name it, or its model, are Sorts Mill Goudy and Linden Hill. Beside them, Crimson Text, Cormorant Garamond and EB Garamond are old-style serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Goudy Old Style.