1557 Civilité Granjon
Living from 1545 in Lyon, France, the famous punchcutter Robert Granjon created a typeface that looked like his own handwriting. The first book printed with this font, in 1557, was probably Dialogues de la...
font_foundry: GLC
750 Latin Uncial
This font was inspired by the Latin script used in European monasteries from circa the 5th to 8th centuries, before the Carolingian “Caroline” (look at our 825 Karolus). It was a regular script, rounded,...
1483 Rotunda Lyon
Towards the end of the 1400s, in Lyon (France), was living Barthélémy Buyer, descendant of a rich family of merchants. In the end of 1472, he engaged a typographist from Liège (Belgium): Guillaume Le...
1525 Durer Initials
In 1525, Albrecht Dürer, the well known German great artist, was publishing the so-called “Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt”, printed in Nuremberg. This handbook explained with numeral figures how to draw...
1533 GLC Augereau Pro
This font was inspired by one of Antoine Augereau’s three roman typefaces: the Gros Romain (±16 Pts) size, used in 1533 to print Le miroir de l’âme…, a religious poetic compilation by Marguerite de...
1925 My Toy Print Deluxe Pro
This family was created inspired from two French (one so common and a very rare large one) “toy print” boxes, named Le petit imprimeur, with rubber stamp characters from the 1920’s. The big difference...
1822 GLC Caslon Pro
This family was inspired by the well-known Caslon typeface created by William Caslon, the English font designer, who was, with John Baskerville, the progenitor of English Transitional typeface classification in the mid-18th century (See...
1479 Caxton Initials
This family was created inspired from the two sets of rough initials fonts used by the famous William Caxton in Westminster (GB) in the late 1400’s. As it was normal for the time, there...
2010 Dance Of Death
This font was inspired from the medieval Dances of Death patterns, as a modest tribute to the famous engraver Hans Holbein’s Alphabet of Death. We have tried to keep the spirit of the time...
1529 Champ Fleury Initials
In 1529, Geofroy Tory, French scholar, engraver, printer, publisher and poet, was publishing the well known so called Champ Fleury, printed by Gilles de Gourmond, in Paris. It is a fully illustrated handbook where...