Amazing free serif typefaces you need to download in 2020, part 3

Sorts Mill Goudy

My third selection for this week’s Free Serif Fonts feature is Barry Schwarz’s Sorts Mill Goudy. The typeface is inspired by Goudy Old Style and, you know, it kinda shows.

This particular variant has found a home on The League of Movable Type and, if you’re like me, ie. distracted by shiny objects, you may initially ignore it in favor of more impressive, impactful typefaces like Orbitron and League Gothic.

However, when the time came for me to work on a heavily text-based app, what was the typeface I crawled back to and begged for forgiveness? You guessed it.

Sorts Mill Goudy includes small caps styles, ligatures, old-style figures and many other conveniences the modern designer expects.

What it doesn’t include is different weights. You just get the one, regular weight and that’s it. Is it practical to use such a typeface?

Sure it is. I wouldn’t use Sorts Mill Goudy to set an entire magazine but it worked pretty well in the Juniorsmile app when I decided that I’d replace bold styles with small caps to add emphasis or differentiation and create some sort of hierarchy.

You can download Sorts Mill Goudy HERE.

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