font_foundry: GLC

This family was inspired by numerous documents and books printed in Paris during the end of the 1700s. Mainly, documents printed by P.G. Simon & N.H. Nyon, “Printers of the parliament” were used for...

This family was inspired from a lot of 1848-1850 French engraved documents reproducing handwritten texts talking about the Paris’ insurrection days in June 1848 (described by Victor Hugo in Les misérables) . It seems...

This font is a late 19th Century French script overview inspired by numerous French letters, from around years 1850-1860, during the second French empire, under Napoleon the third. Most of them were written with...

This font was inspired by the very well-known humanistic script called “Cancellaresca”. This variant was used by a lot of calligraphers in the late 1400s, specially by the Venetian Giovannantonio Tagliente, whose patterns were...

This family was inspired by an engraved plate from Diderot & Dalembert’s Encyclopedia (publication beginning in 1751), illustrating the chapter devoted to letter engraving techniques. The plate bears two engravers names : “Aubin” (may...

From 1702 to 1811 the French “Royal”, then “Imperial”, Printers, neglected Garamond and Fournier’s designs and used only the font called “Romain du Roy”, carved (1693 to 1723) by Philippe Grandjean by order of...

This is not an historically accurate font but rather one intended capture the spirit of ancient Roman manual type. It was inspired by various patterns used in documents and books created by Latin scribes...

This font was inspired by the paint brushed letters in use in the 60 – 70s for protest slogans tagged on the cities walls. In those days, we didn’t commonly use aerosols like today,...