CRUDDY (31 page)

Cruddy
is set in Monotype Fournier—discovered in the 1930 edition of
Moby Dick
designed and illustrated by Rockwell Kent. The typeface itself was recut for Monotype in 1924 under the direction of Stanley Morison. The original was created by Pierre Simon Fournier around 1742 and called “St. Augustin Ordinaire” in his
Manuel Typographique.
The earliest of the “transitional” typefaces, Fournier was a bridge to the more severe “modern” style made popular by Bodoni later in the century.