A font designed by
Fred Goudy in 1941, originally intended to be a private press type used only by the students of
Scripps College in
California.
The font somewhat resembles the well known '
times' with its simplicity, but has a few cute little embellishments. The dot on the
i is slightly elongated and slanted like a little
accent mark; there is a slight accented line on the bottom left of the
S as well.
Tim Burton had his book of short stories
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories published using this rarely seen font, and provides a brief credit and
blurb about it in the back. It mentions that "Goudy himself described it as being a straightforward and simple design, lacking any freakish qualities."
This is undoubtedly why Burton chose to use the
font; a small ironic addition to a book containing nothing but stories of
freakish children.