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This French inspired font which was used in 1514 is highly decorative and GLC has updated the complete set.1514 Paris Verand which was installed while printing “Triumphus translatez de langage Tuscan en François” by the printer Barthélémy Verand. The lacking letters have been added by the publisher and now they provide a complete set for … Read more
In the later stages of 1400s, Duke of Burgundy’s court used and type of fonts named “Bastarde Flamande” for hand written book. This “Bastarde Flamande” inspired the fmaily of 1475 Bastarde Manual which was drawn from the source of French Translation of Histoire Romaine book by Pierre Bersuire, circa. Characters are hand written on rough … Read more
1512 Initials is a superb collection which is highly original in the area of initials. It contained roman set with white on black and the other of black and white, which will give the printer options of using as per audience and context. Inspired by Italian, it also contained fleurons and decorative elements. Finding its … Read more
Large number of letters is there in this font though the ligatures and special characters remain few. The letter “long S” is used in its primitive form. This font is used to decorate many web-site, greeting cards , and posters but a file is required to read them on keyboard. The most amazing thing about … Read more
Jean Heynlin from Sorbonne University drew this 1470 Sorbonne font getting its inspiration from Pannartz’s which was ultimately carved to perfection by Adolf Rusch at the university’s printing workshop in Paris. Though the standard and historic ligatures and the Latin Abbreviations were from original, but a few like U, J, W and Y were added … Read more
The famous calligrapher William Caxton from Westminster had defined 2 font families in late 1400’s for old English and Latin Language. These 2 font families built the inspiration for 1479 Caxton Family. Published by GLC, this one normal style font contains most of the Old English and Latin Abbreviations and Ligatures, those missing were added … Read more
We represented this font by a rick bibliophile and an acknowledged scribe of Italy. This Italian calligrapher was in a mission of reconciling Roman Script, during this he was inspired by Italian humanistic Minuscule script. For modern day purpose long “S” is substituted with small “s” and other non-existing characters (U/V etc.) were also introduced. … Read more