font_foundry: GLC

This family was created inspired from the first font carved and cast in France, for the Sorbonne University’s printing workshop (Paris). The characters were drawn by Jean Heynlin, rector of the university – inspired...

In 1805, December second, the Napoleonic French army won the famous battle of Austerlitz, against Autrichian and Russian armies. Napoleon was a great general, but his hand-writing was not legible at all, so he...

This font was created with inspiration from the wood blocks carved for chapbooks, posters, calendars or newspaper in the late 1500’s and early 1600’s. We have tried to keep their innocence and rough style....

This typeface family was inspired by a set of fonts, designed in the Garamond style, used for an edition of Remarques critiques sur les œuvres d’Horace by “D.A.E.P.”, published in Paris in 1689 by...

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 a contemporary usable typeface,...

This font was inspired from the numerous font-types looking like Hand-carved in the 1700’s. The capitals are mainly inspired from the font carved by Fournier in year 1781, the year of the famous American...

This font was created inspired from a handwritten copy of the “Brief story of the second journey in Canada” (1535) by French explorer Jacques Cartier. It is an early “Civilité” manual style, closely looking...

This family of two character monograms and initial letters was inspired from a French portfolio containing about two hundred examples of “Chiffres – deux lettres”, destinated to engravers and jewelers, published in Paris in...