[1] It belongs to the "old-style" of serif font design, with low contrast between strokes and an oblique axis.

[1] Issued by the American branch of Lanston Monotype, Deepdene was popular on its release and often used for the body text of books.

[7][8] Goudy described the design as loosely inspired by "a Dutch type which had just been introduced;" Goudy's friend Paul Bennett suggested in later life that this was Jan van Krimpen's Lutetia although Walter Tracy writes that the attribution cannot be certain.

[1] The family in metal type included: Deepdene has been digitised and released by several organisations and software companies.

P22's digitisation under their LTC imprint perhaps uniquely includes the swash capitals and small caps in italics.