Figure 360
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue’s Merrymount Type
1904
The type known as Merrymount was designed for the Merrymount Press about 1895 by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, the architect, who designed the well-known Cheltenham fonts. He, too, based the Merrymount font on the Jenson letter, but instead of having the courage of our rather waving convictions and making a type as light as Jenson’s, both he and I were seduced by Morris’s unduly black types. So we merely modified the heaviness of the Morris fonts, although adopting an early form of roman letter. The result is that the type is took black unless used on large pages, as in…the Agricola of Tacitus (1904)…in folio.