font_foundry: GLC

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...

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 Grandjean by order of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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 Manuel Typographique… in Paris...

This font is not a historical one. Although to make it was quite time-consuming (each glyph was hand-drawn separately, except for the ligatures), this cartoon or comics style font is just made for fun.

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...