Kennerley is an 'old-style' serif design, loosely influenced by Italian and Dutch printing traditions of the Renaissance and early modern period. Based on Humanist writing style and Roman inscriptions, old style typeface has the following characteristics: serifs are almost always bracketed. "Goudy Bookletter 1911 (open-source revival, no italic)". Kennerley Old Style is a serif typeface designed by Frederic Goudy. Developed by Comicrafts Dutch Masters to give DCs BATMAN & ROBIN ADVENTURES a crisp, clean, Art Deco look, all four pints of DUTCH. Typologia: Studies in Type Design & Type Making, with Comments on the Invention of Typography, the First Types, Legibility, and Fine Printing. A Half-Century of Type Design and Typography: 1895-1945, Volume 1. The serif faces cover the Aldine, French Old Style, Dutch Old Style and Neoclassical categories while the sans serif faces include two grotesques (gothics), a geometric sans and a humanist sans. Dutch fonts offered by Fontfabric are typefaces designed to support Dutch language orthography specifics such as diacritical. "The Fortunes of Mitchell Kennerley, Bookman (book review)". Type design information compiled and maintained by Luc Devroye. It has also been digitised several times. During the 1910s and 1920s it was licensed in Britain by the Caslon foundry, who marketed it extensively. Initially cast privately in metal type, Kennerley was later made available on sale in metal type and for Monotype's hot metal typesetting system.
The italic is somewhat florid, with swashes on some letters, and additional swashes were available for other capitals. It has also been compared in some details, notably the tilted understroke on the 'e', to the type of late 15th century Venetian printer Nicolas Jenson by Walter Tracy and others American Type Founders' historian Henry Lewis Bullen somewhat cruelly described it as "a spoilt Jenson".
Goudy described the design as very loosely based on the 'Fell Types', a set of type in the Dutch style collected by Bishop John Fell of Oxford for the Oxford University Press, although he conceded that "comparison of my type with the Fell letter will disclose little more than an identity of spirit" and Walter Tracy found the claim of influence implausible. He designed Kennerley out of dissatisfaction with the Caslon typefaces then in use in fine art printing he felt these had an uneven colour on the page due to the thickness of the capital letters being much greater than that of the lower case. Goudy was a fine art printer and later a prolific typeface designer. 224, ITC Zapf International, Fleischman BT Pro, ITC Souvenir, ITC Newtext, Century 751, Amerigo BT, ITC Newtext, Matt Antique, Elegant Garamond, ITC Usherwood, Minister, Charter BT Pro, Dutch 766, Garth Graphic, Aldus Nova Pro, Diverda Serif, ITC. Kennerley Old Style's italic and swash capitals. This bold typeface with soft serifs expands old-style serif shapes, transforming them into a confident contemporary project. MyFonts tags these typefaces as Dutch Old Style: FF Meta Serif, ITC Caslon No.
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