GLC Fonts

1741 Financiere

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

This family was inspired by the Fournier's font named "Financière". It is a looking like manual font, carved in 1741 by Pierre Simon Fournier (le jeune) and published in his…

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…

1638 Civilite Manual

Post author:GLCstaff
Post published:2010
Post category:decorative

This font was inspired by a French solicitor's document dated 1638, written in the special style so named "Civilité". We have worked to transform the almost illegible original form into…

1648 Chancellerie

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

This font was inspired by the hand-written 1648 Munster peace treatise signed by French King Louis XIV and German emperor Ferdinand II. It is a Cancellaresca font style, meticulously written…

1669 Elzevir

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

This family was inspired from the set of font faces used in Amsterdam by Daniel Elzevir to print the famous “Tractatus de corde...” the study on earth anatomy by Richard…

1550 Arabesques

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

Font inspired by the decorative elements and opening capitals frequently in use in the early 1500s, under Geoffroy Tory’s book “Champfleury” influence, especially in Lyon (France). It is an entirely…