GLC Fonts

1590 Humane Warszawa

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:2009
Post category:decorative

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…

1592 GLC Garamond

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:2008
Post category:decorative

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…

161 Vergilius

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:2010
Post category:script

This font was inspired by the rare manuscript Roman Quadrata used by an unknown scribe to inscribe a copy of the Roman poet Virgil’s GEORGICS, somehwere around 161 to 180…

1610 Cancellaresca

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:2008
Post category:decorative

This font was inspired by the “Cancellaresca moderna ” type, which was calligraphed by Francesco Periccioli (published in 1610 in Siena, Italy). It was entirely handwritten by the designer for…

1543 German Deluxe

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:2009
Post category:blackletter

This family was inspired by the sets of fonts used in 1543 by Michael Isengrin, printer in Basel (Germany) to print the splendid New Kreüterbuch...(New herbal...), with numerous nice pictures,…

1543 Humane Jenson

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:2008
Post category:decorative

In 1543 the well-known “De humani corporis fabrica” treatise on anatomy by André Vesale, was printed by Johann Oporinus in Basel (Switzerland). Various typefaces were used for this work, mostly…

1492 Quadrata

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:2008
Post category:blackletter

Font designed from that used in France in 1492 to print the peace treaty between French and Enqlish Kings in Etaples, French town in Normandy. This font include "long s",…

1543 Humane Petreius

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:2012
Post category:legible

The regular style of this family was inspired from the typeface used in Nuremberg, Germany, by Johannes Petreius in 1543 to print the famous “De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium,” the well-known…

1499 Alde Manuce Pro

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:2010
Post category:garalde

This family was inspired by the beautiful roman font used by Aldus Manutius in Venice (1499) to print for the first time Hypnerotomachia Poliphili..., the well known book attributed to…

1545 Faucheur

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:2011
Post category:garalde

This family was inspired by the set of fonts used in Paris by Ponce Rosset, aka “Faucheur” to print the account of the second voyage to Canada by Jacques Cartier,…