font_foundry: GLC

1906 French News

1906 French News font

We have created this family from the numerous derivatives in use for newspapers since the middle of the 1800s to the 1970s, inspired by the well known Clarendon. Mainly, the patterns are those used...

1906 Titrage

1906 Titrage font

We have created this family as a complement to 1906 French News since the two type families were commonly in use in the same publications, including newspapers, popular books, calendars, almanacs and posters. This...

1590 Humane Warszawa

1590 Humane Warszawa font

This family was inspired by a font carved circa 1590 for a Polish editor. We don’t know who was the punchcutter, nor the printer’s name. We have added the special East European diacritics (Czech,...

2009 GLC Plantin

2009 GLC Plantin font

We created this family in an attempt to submit a Plantin’s font pattern overview. So it is not a real historical font, but a “looking like”. We have added the special East European diacritics...

2009 Lollipop

2009 Lollipop font

This font is not a historical one, in spite of the fact that it was inspired by the Cancellaresca pattern (look at 1491 Cancellaresca and 1610 Cancellaresca). We have created this one as a...

825 Karolus

825 Karolus font

In the beginning of the 800s, during the reign of Carolus Magnus (or “Karolus”, as he signed himself), a great reformation of the written characters was conducted under the authority of Alcuin, Paul Diacre...

825 Lettrines Karolus

825 Lettrines Karolus font

We have created this font as a complement for the 825 Karolus. It is a set of decorated letters in the style of those used by the scribes during the early medieval era. It...

2009 Handymade

2009 Handymade font

This font is not a historical one. Although to make it was quite time-consuming (each glyph was hand-drawn separately, except for the ligatures), this cartoon or comics style font is just made for fun.

1741 Financiere

1741 Financiere font

This family was inspired by the Fournier’s font named “Financière”. It is a looking like manual font, carved in 1741 by Pierre Simon Fournier (le jeune) and published in his Manuel Typographique… in Paris...

1917 Stencil

1917 Stencil font

We have created this family inspired by the old-fashioned stencil letters like those the French army used during the WWI to write on soldiers’ clothes, blankets, signals, ammunition, supplies and so on. This is...