1529 Champ Fleury Pro font 1525 Durer Initials font

1525 Durer Initials

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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…

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1523 Holbein font

1523 Holbein

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This typeface is an attempt to offer as a font the well known marvelous Hans Holbein “Death Alphabet”, first published in 1523. We have tried to preserve as much as…

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1522 Vicentino font

1522 Vicentino

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This font is mainly inspired from the engraved characters of the small book known as “Operina”, or “The method and rules for writing cursive letters or chancery script” from the…

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1514 Paris Verand font 1512 Initials font

1512 Initials

This set of initial decorated letters is an entirely original creation, drawn inspired by Italian renaissance patterns. It contains two roman alphabets : one drawn in white on black background…

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1510 Nancy font

1510 Nancy

This set of decorated initial letters was inspired by those used in 1510 in Nancy (France, Lorraine) for printing of "Recueil ou croniques des hystoires des royaulmes d'Austrasie ou France…

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1509 Leyden font

1509 Leyden

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…

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1499 Alde Manuce Pro font