After a long delay (we blame the state of the world, frankly - exhausting) it's finally the end of season one of The Type Pod! 

In this episode we finally tackle our least favourite typeface: Goudy. We learn about the designer, Frederic (no K) Goudy and speculate on his rumoured penchant for women and fast cars. We dive into his improbably large output... of typefaces and publications. We wonder if part of the reason he designed and cut over 100 typefaces might be his very talented wife Bertha, who got much less press despite being named the Times ‘Woman Printer of the Year’. 

Jason did the history of the typeface for this episode. He offered to revisit the “Oxford University Press War” days because he has spent less time in therapy about this than Anitra. It becomes clear by the end of this episode that he is in a much better place about Goudy as well as his ex-boyfriends. 

This episode is for all survivors of corporate typefaces, whoever you are and whatever they were.

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In this episode we talk about Baskerville, which is the most trustworthy typeface (as proven by Science.) 

Anitra has Feminist Thoughts about designer John Baskerville and thought it would be inappropriate for Jason to mansplain this particular typeface to her… but she found out some things about JB and, well, this episode takes a turn. 

We learn about how designer John Baskerville pissed off the establishment enough to be turned into a famous book character and perhaps inspired a riot. What happened to Baskerville after he died is possibly even more interesting than why he got dismissed by the Vox Classification system. 

And it’s not often you can say that.

You can find the show notes and transcript set in Baskerville  at https://www.anitraland.com/podcast

If you'd like to share your own views on Baskerville, or the pod, email us on designsleuth@yahoo.com or leave us a message on speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer

You can find us on Twitter: @type_pod and on Insta: @the_type_pod

Our Producer, Professor Inger Mewburn is located at the Australian National University and is on twitter as @thesiswhisperer

In this episode, David joins us again as we examine the history of that most  ubiquitous of typefaces, Times New Roman, which is much more interesting than Times New Roman itself -  honest.

Anitra volunteered to do the typeface history for this episode so she can then bore for Australia on printing technology.

Jason and David  will try to stay awake.

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You can find the show notes and transcript set in Times New Roman  at https://www.anitraland.com/podcast

If you'd like to share your own views on TNR, or the pod, email us on designsleuth@yahoo.com or leave us a message on speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer

You can find us on Twitter: @type_pod and on Insta: @the_type_pod

Our Producer, Professor Inger Mewburn is located at the Australian National University and is on twitter as @thesiswhisperer