1791 Constitution font 1792 La Marseillaise font 1809 Homer font

1809 Homer

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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…

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1820 Modern font

1820 Modern

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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…

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1848 Barricades font

1848 Barricades

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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…

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1682 Writhed Hand font 1859 Solferino font

1859 Solferino

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This font is a late 19th Century French script overview inspired by numerous French letters, from around years 1850-1860, during the second French empire, under Napoleon the third. Most of…

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1689 Almanach font

1689 Almanach

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This family was inspired by the eroded and tired fonts used by printers from the sixteenth century to the early years of twentieth for cheap or fleeting works, like almanacs,…

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1863 Gettysburg font

1863 Gettysburg

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This script font was inspired by a lot of autographs, notes and drafts, written by President Abraham Lincoln, mainly the Gettysburg address, first draft and copies, but also the emancipation…

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