The Goudy Center needs your help
The Goudy International Center for Font Technology and Aesthetics is in danger of losing funding, staffing, and office space at the Rochester Institute of Technology School of Printing Management and Sciences. In order to prevent this, we need individuals and corporations to voice their support for the Center and its' services. You can voice your support for this by e-mailing Archie Provan adpppr@rit.edu at the Goudy Center with your plea for continued funding of the Center.
What is the Goudy Center?
The Goudy International Center for Font Technology and Aesthetics is the first worldwide independent resource center for the disseminaton of information about type, its history, development, and its use in documents. The Center is housed in the School of Printing Management and Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.
The Center offers courses addressing a broad range of technical, aesthetic, historic, and legal aspects of alphabets and typefaces, including those from both Western and non-Western cultures, as well as offering courses focused on the typography and design of documents. A major area of concern in the Center's courses and research is the development of multicultural document creation skills.
Included in the Center's plans are industry-sponsored design workshops, research and information dissemination, and outreach programs. Future projects include expansion into font metrics and electronic interchange. The Center provides access to all forms of image setting, from hot metal to digital.
What is the Typeface Database?
The purpose of the Goudy Center Typeface Database, is to facilitate designers in choosing a name for their typeface which is unique. The problem that presently exists is one of naming. Due to the fact that there are so many typefaces and names in use today, it is very easy to come up with a name that has already been used. This causes confusion among people choosing typefaces. Yet another problem in typeface naming is with people creating very similar typefaces to ones already in use and naming them with very similar names.
Thus, the purpose of the database is to help ensure that typeface names are not duplicated and that a consistent and uniform database of such information be kept for future reference. It is also highly advantageous for designer and others to submit any and all information relating to their typeface names. Additions to the database will surely help to protect the designers and their designs in the future.
