font_foundry: GLC

1792 La Marseillaise

1792 La Marseillaise font

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) by the 32 year...

1669 Elzevir

1669 Elzevir font

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 Lower, in 1669. The...

2011 Slimtype

2011 Slimtype font

This light manual font, with two styles, is a looking like slab serif or typewriter pattern. It is containing Western and Northern European, Icelandic, Baltic, Eastern, Central European and Turquish specific characters, plus old...

1676 Morden Map

1676 Morden Map font

This family was created — inspired from the engraved typeface (Two styles : Normal & Italic) used in the pack of 52 playing cards who was describing the 52 counties forming a small Atlas...

1584 Pragmatica Lima

1584 Pragmatica Lima font

This family was created from the set of font faces used in Lima (Peru) by Antonio Ricardo in 1584 for the first publication ever printed in Southern America: a four-page leaflet in Spanish entitled...

1871 Victor Hugo

1871 Victor Hugo font

The famous French poet and novelist Victor Hugo (1802-1885) used several handwriting styles, sometimes almost illegible. His manuscripts designated to be published was written using a script style, to be legible clearly. We have...

1715 Jonathan Swift

1715 Jonathan Swift font

The famous Irish poet and novelist Jonathan Swift (Dublin 1667-1745) has a large personal library of which he noticed carefully the book list by himself. We have used a facsimile from this catalogue to...

1886 Romantic Initials

1886 Romantic Initials font

This family of decorated initial letters was inspired from a French catalogue dedicated to engravers, embroiders and jewelers. unfortunately, we don’t know the name of the illustrator, no more than the publisher, because a...

1871 Dreamer 2 Pro

1871 Dreamer 2 Pro font

Like our first “1871 Dreamer Script” this script font was inspired from a lot of manuscripts, notes and drafts, written by the famous american poet Walt Whitman. However, it is a very different font,...

1726 Real Española

1726 Real Española font

This family was inspired from the set of fontfaces used by Francisco Del Hierro, to print in 1726 the first Spanish language Dictionary from the Spanish Royal Academy (Real Academia Española, Diccionario de Autoridades)....