GLC Fonts

1742 Civilite

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

In the late medieval period appeared a "semi-cursive" writing, the French "écriture de civilité". Quickly, it is carved and melted down in lead for printing. It is a very elegant…

1776 Independence

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

1776 Independence was designed inspired mainly from the Caslon typeface used by John Dunlap in the night of 1776 July 4th in Philadelphia to print the first 200 sheets of…

1785 GLC Baskerville

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:2011
Post category:legible

This family was created/inspired from the well-known Baskerville Roman and Italic typefaces created by John Baskerville, the English font designer. We were inspired by the original family sent by Baskerville’s…

1786 GLC Fournier

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

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…

1790 Royal Printing

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:April 21, 2020
Post category:decorative

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…

1791 Constitution

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:2011
Post category:decorative

In the year 1791, the 20th of June, the king of France Louis XVI attempted to flight from Paris to the Luxembourg. He was intercepted on the road and taked…

1792 La Marseillaise

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:2011
Post category:decorative

This font, was created -- inspired from the original manuscript of the French revolutionary song “La Marseillaise”, becoming later the French national anthem, composed in one night (1792 April 25th)…

1809 Homer

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:2011
Post category:funny

This family is inspired by the small hands used in the 1700’s 1800’s to write messages carried by carrier pigeons, also named “homers”, before the use of photography and microfilms…

1820 Modern

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:2009
Post category:legible

This family was inspired mainly (Normal and Italic style ) by a Didot pattern font used in Rennes (France, Britanny) by Cousin-Danelle, printers, for Antiquités historiques et monumentales ‡ visiter…

1848 Barricades

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

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…