Companion
Matteson Typographics · Steve Matteson · 2021
Steve Matteson's 2021 revival of Frederic Goudy's Companion Old Style, including swash and alternate letterforms originally designed for Woman's Home Companion magazine.
About
Goudy's original design was notable for its deliberate violations of typographic convention in stroke stress and curves, producing a distinctly personal old style face. Matteson's revival accurately reconstructs this character while adding swash and alternative letter shapes for greater versatility. The family currently offers Regular and Italic in a single weight.
Classification
A revival of Frederic Goudy's Companion Old Style, which belongs to the old style serif tradition. Goudy himself noted deliberate departures from convention in stress and curves, giving the face an idiosyncratic character within the humanist old style genre.