font_foundry: GLC

1968 GLC Graffiti

1968 GLC Graffiti font

This font was inspired by the paint brushed letters in use in the 60 – 70s for protest slogans tagged on the cities walls. In those days, we didn’t commonly use aerosols like today,...

2009 Primitive

2009 Primitive font

This is not an historically accurate font but rather one intended capture the spirit of ancient Roman manual type. It was inspired by various patterns used in documents and books created by Latin scribes...

825 Lettrines Karolus

825 Lettrines Karolus font

We have created this font as a complement for the 825 Karolus. It is a set of decorated letters in the style of those used by the scribes during the early medieval era. It...

825 Karolus

825 Karolus font

In the beginning of the 800s, during the reign of Carolus Magnus (or “Karolus”, as he signed himself), a great reformation of the written characters was conducted under the authority of Alcuin, Paul Diacre...

2009 Lollipop

2009 Lollipop font

This font is not a historical one, in spite of the fact that it was inspired by the Cancellaresca pattern (look at 1491 Cancellaresca and 1610 Cancellaresca). We have created this one as a...

2009 GLC Plantin

2009 GLC Plantin font

We created this family in an attempt to submit a Plantin’s font pattern overview. So it is not a real historical font, but a “looking like”. We have added the special East European diacritics...

1590 Humane Warszawa

1590 Humane Warszawa font

This family was inspired by a font carved circa 1590 for a Polish editor. We don’t know who was the punchcutter, nor the printer’s name. We have added the special East European diacritics (Czech,...

1845 Mistress

1845 Mistress font

This font was inspired by Spencer’s patterns, particularly the elegant varieties called “Ladies’ Hand” in some handbooks. Intelligent OTF ligatures and alternates (about 160) are included in the font, giving a closer appearance to...

1820 Modern

1820 Modern font

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 de Montfort ‡ Corseul,...

1917 Stencil

1917 Stencil font

We have created this family inspired by the old-fashioned stencil letters like those the French army used during the WWI to write on soldiers’ clothes, blankets, signals, ammunition, supplies and so on. This is...