font_foundry: GLC

1509 Leyden

1509 Leyden font

This script font was inspired by the type used in Leyden by Jan Seversz to print Breviores elegantioresque epistolae […], author Francesco Filfelo, circa 1509. The original font contains all lower case characters, except...

1863 Gettysburg

1863 Gettysburg font

This script font was inspired by a lot of autographs, notes and drafts, written by President Abraham Lincoln, mainly the Gettysburg address, first draft and copies, but also the emancipation proclamation. It is an...

1565 Venetian

1565 Venetian font

This set of initial decorated letters is an entirely original creation, drawn inspired by Italian renaissance engraver Vespasiano Amphiareo’s paterns published in Venice circa 1568. It contains two roman alphabets : the first of...

1589 Humane Bordeaux

1589 Humane Bordeaux font

This family was created inspired from the Garamond patern set of fonts used by S. Millanges “imprimeur ordinaire du Roy”, in Bordeaux, circa 1580-1590. Especially for reprint L’instruction des curés (Instructions to parish priests),...

1514 Paris Verand

1514 Paris Verand font

This set of initial decorated letters was inspired by a font in use in the beginning of 1500s in Paris. Exactly, we have used the set that Barthélémy Verand employed for the printing of...

2008 Xmas Fantasy

2008 Xmas Fantasy font

This family is an entirely original creation, drawn in the spirit of ornamental blackletters like those designed by the 19th century. It contains two styles : the first (Normal) of decorated blackletters, upper and...

1584 Rinceau

1584 Rinceau font

This set of initial letters is an entirely original creation, inspired by French renaissance patterns used by Bordeaux printers circa 1580-1590. It contains two roman alphabets : the first of decorated letters, the second...

1592 GLC Garamond

1592 GLC Garamond font

This family was inspired by the pure Garamond pattern set of fonts used by Egenolff and Berner, German printers in Frankfurt, at the end of the sixteenth century. All the experts said it was...

1495 Lombardes

1495 Lombardes font

This set of initial decorated letters was created, entirely re-drawn, and inspired by the well known Lombarde initial letters type. More precisely, the type used by early printers in Lyon (France) like Mathias Huss,...

1871 Dreamer Script

1871 Dreamer Script font

This script font was inspired from a lot of manuscripts, notes and drafts, written by the famous American poet Walt Whitman. It is a very elegant type, in spite of a few curious ligatures,...