Goudy Old Style vs Ehrhardt

Goudy Old Style is a classic serif typeface designed by American type designer Frederic Goudy in 1915 for the American Type Founders company. The design is categorized as an Old Style serif, drawing inspiration from Renaissance letterforms while incorporating Goudy's distinct details. It features a diagonal stroke axis and a characteristic upward-curved terminal on the lowercase 'e'. The typeface...

Ehrhardt is a serif typeface produced by Monotype in 1938, based on historical types originally cut by the Hungarian punchcutter Miklós Kis in Amsterdam during the 1680s. The matrices for these old-style letters were later acquired by the Ehrhardt foundry in Leipzig, Germany, which gave the subsequent revivals their modern name. It features moderate thick-thin contrast, bracketed serifs, and a tra...