font_foundry: GLC

1741 Financiere

1741 Financiere font

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...

2009 Handymade

2009 Handymade font

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.

1634 René Descartes

1634 René Descartes font

This font was inspired by the well-known philosopher René Descartes’ hand writing. In 1634, from Amsterdam, he wrote a famous letter to his friend Mersenne, a great scientist monk, in which he spoke about...

1585 Flowery

1585 Flowery font

This set of initial letters was inspired from French renaissance decorated letters. Unfortunately, we don’t know where they were in use, or who was the punchcutter, our models were coming from a late XIXth...

1890 Notice

1890 Notice font

We have created this family inspired from the hand-drawn letters used from the late 1800s until beginning of 1900s for notices, advertising, posters and also early comic titles. It is a hand-made font, with...

1066 Hastings

1066 Hastings font

In 1066, William, duke of Normandy, was invading England. He was demanding the crown for himself, against King Harold the Saxon. He killed Harold and reached the crown at Hastings, the well-known battlefield. A...

1565 Renaissance

1565 Renaissance font

This set of initial letters was inspired from French renaissance decorated letters. It is a typical pattern, one among dozen quite similar, but this one was in use in Paris, unchanged, for centuries, and...

2010 Cancellaresca Recens

2010 Cancellaresca Recens font

This font was inspired by the Cancellaresca pattern (look at our 1491 Cancellaresca and 1610 Cancellaresca), in particular Spanish one, from Francisco Lucas, who was working in the late 1500s. It is a modern...

1546 Poliphile

1546 Poliphile font

This family was inspired from the French edition of Hypnerotomachie de Poliphile (“The Strife of Love in a Dream”) attributed to Francesco Colonna, 1467 printed in 1546 in Paris by Jacques Kerver. He was...

1906 Fantasio

1906 Fantasio font

We have created this font inspired from the hatched one used for the inner title and many headlines by the old French popular “cheerful” satirical magazine Fantasio (1906-1948). This family may be used together...