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Free Goudy Old Style alternatives

Frederic Goudy for ATF, 1915, and the American book serif for most of the century that followed.

What a Goudy Old Style substitute has to get right

The diamond-shaped dots, the upturned ear on the g, and a colour on the page that is slightly heavy and slightly irregular. Regularise it and it turns into any other old-style.

The one in this archive

One entry, because one is the honest answer. A face is listed here only if the substitution would survive a designer looking at both.

Goudy Old Style is not ours and nothing here is affiliated with or endorsed by whoever owns it. The name is used to say what these free typefaces can be set instead of. Every font above is redistributable, carries its licence inside the download, and is free for commercial work.