Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "University of California Old Style is a serif font designed by Frederic Goudy and created for the University of California Press from 1936-8. It is of Goudy's most popular serif fonts.University of California is an 'old-style' serif font, one inspired by the styles of printing popular before the late eighteenth century. Goudy described it as particularly inspired by the 'Fell Types', a collection of 1670s fonts used by Oxford University Press, while other details such as the tilted cross-stroke of the 'e' recall what is now called the 'Venetian' style of typeface design, used by printers such as Nicolas Jenson up to the 1490s. Intended for fine book printing, the design has a delicate grace and strokes that alternate between thick and thin. Serifs are fine slabs with minimal bracketing. Goudy provided a set of swash capitals as alternates for the italic.Like many of Goudy's other families, it has been rereleased and made generally available after his death, under a variety of (often shorter) names. While no longer the corporate font of the University of California Press, it retains a strong popularity in academia and is used as a corporate font by several universities."@en }
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- University_of_California_Old_Style abstract "University of California Old Style is a serif font designed by Frederic Goudy and created for the University of California Press from 1936-8. It is of Goudy's most popular serif fonts.University of California is an 'old-style' serif font, one inspired by the styles of printing popular before the late eighteenth century. Goudy described it as particularly inspired by the 'Fell Types', a collection of 1670s fonts used by Oxford University Press, while other details such as the tilted cross-stroke of the 'e' recall what is now called the 'Venetian' style of typeface design, used by printers such as Nicolas Jenson up to the 1490s. Intended for fine book printing, the design has a delicate grace and strokes that alternate between thick and thin. Serifs are fine slabs with minimal bracketing. Goudy provided a set of swash capitals as alternates for the italic.Like many of Goudy's other families, it has been rereleased and made generally available after his death, under a variety of (often shorter) names. While no longer the corporate font of the University of California Press, it retains a strong popularity in academia and is used as a corporate font by several universities.".