This ancient font as per its name was first used in 1509 in a Dutch town then known as Leyden for printing Francesco Filfelo’s “Breviores elegantioresque epistolae” by Jan Seversz. 1509 Leyden had covered almost one complete set of small lombardic initials, the complete set of lower case characters except w, Eth , etc. , … Read more
Nancy was inspired from the printing of Symphorien Champion’s book named “Recueil ou croniques des hystoires des royaulmes d’Austrasie ou France orientale[…]” in around 1510 at Nancy town of France. Basically focused on initials letters, it has 3 set of families with only 1 complete and clear. Reconstruction by GLC was bit difficult as some … Read more
The birth for this 1462 Bamberg font came to life while printing of a book named “Ackermann Von Böhmen” which was written in an old German Language. Though it was the phase of when printing just got started Albrecht Pfister did a great job in the design of this font. Developed long back, it used … Read more
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
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