Sunday, October 9, 2011

Download 1536 Civilite Manual Font Family Style



Download 1536 Civilite Manual Font Family Style

Download 1536 Civilite Manual Font Style Family

This font was created inspired from a handwritten copy of the “Brief story of the second journey in Canada” (1535) by French explorer Jacques Cartier. It is an early "Civilit" manual style, closely looking like the "Civilit" script font carved by Robert Granjon a few years later and still strongly influenced by blackletters forms, clearly visible in the capitals or long s, d, e, f or t forms.

(Look at our “1557 Civilite Granjon Pro” and the latest “1638 Civilite Manual”). It is containing Western (including Celtic) and Northern European, Icelandic, Baltic, Eastern, Central European and Turquish diacritics.

Historical forms, titling alternates and the numerous lower alternates or ligatures made the font looking like a real various hand.

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Saturday, October 8, 2011

Download 1525 Durer Initials Font Family



Download 1525 Durer Initials Font Family

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1525 Durer Initials

In 1525, Albrecht Drer, the well known German great artist, was publishing the so-called Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt, printed in Nuremberg. This handbook explained with numeral figures how to draw with a compass and ruler. A large part is devoted to the drawing of Roman characters, which can be used as decorative initials.

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Friday, October 7, 2011

Download 1525 Durer Initials Font Family Style



Download 1525 Durer Initials Font Family Style

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1525 Durer Initials

In 1525, Albrecht Drer, the well known German great artist, was publishing the so-called Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt, printed in Nuremberg. This handbook explained with numeral figures how to draw with a compass and ruler. A large part is devoted to the drawing of Roman characters, which can be used as decorative initials.

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Download 1514 Paris Verand Font Family Style



Download 1514 Paris Verand Font Family Style

Download 1514 Paris Verand Font Family Style

This set of initial decorated letters was inspired by a font in use in the beginning of 1500s in Paris.

Exactly, we have used the set that Barthlmy Verand employed for the printing of Triumphus translatez de langage Tuscan en Franois, (from Triumph of Petrarque) in the year 1514.

Some letters, lacked, have been reconstructed to propose a complete alphabet. It appears that the printer used some letters to replace others, as V, turned over to make a A, or D to make a Q.

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The original fonts letters were drawn in white on a black background only, but it was tempting to propose a negative version in black on white.

It is used as variously as web-site titles, posters and flyers design, publishing texts looking like ancient ones, or greeting cards, all various sorts of presentations, as a very decorative, elegant and luxurious additional font.

This font supports strong enlargements remaining very smart and fine.

Its original medieval hight is about one inch equivalent to about four lines of characters.

This font may be used with all blackletter fonts, but works particularly well with 1543 Humane Jenson, 1557 Italic and 1742 Civilite, without any anachronism.

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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Download 1509 Leyden Font Family



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1509 Leyden

This script font was inspired by the type used in Leyden by Jan Seversz to print Breviores elegantioresque epistolae [...], author Francesco Filfelo, circa 1509. The original font contains all lower case characters, except w, eth, thorn, lslash, oslash and so... and almost upper case. In addition, one set of small lombardic initials were also nearly complete. It take place instead of the Bold style (in only one package)offering a real and rare complete historical printing set...

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Download 1509 Leyden Font Family Style



Download 1509 Leyden Font Family Style

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1509 Leyden

This script font was inspired by the type used in Leyden by Jan Seversz to print Breviores elegantioresque epistolae [...], author Francesco Filfelo, circa 1509. The original font contains all lower case characters, except w, eth, thorn, lslash, oslash and so... and almost upper case. In addition, one set of small lombardic initials were also nearly complete. It take place instead of the Bold style (in only one package)offering a real and rare complete historical printing set...

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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Download 1475 Bastarde Manual Font Family Style



Download 1475 Bastarde Manual Font Family Style

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This script font was inspired by the type called “Bastarde Flamande”, a very appreciated one in the Duke of Burgundy’s court in the end of 1400s for hand written books. A book titled Histoire Romaine (Roman history), from roman author Tite Live, translated in French by Pierre Bersuire, circa 1475, was our main source for drawning the lower case characters and a lot of upper case.

Each character was written by hand with quill pen on rough paper to look like the originals as better as possible. More…

This font includes “long s”, naturally, as typically medieval , also a few ligatures, final and initial characters but they aren't any abbreviations because it was used for a text written in French language, not for Latin one.

Instructions for use, enclosed in the file, helps to identify them on keyboard.

It can be used as variously as web-site titles, posters and fliers design, publishing texts looking like ancient ones, or greeting cards, all various sorts of presentations, as a very decorative, elegant and luxurious font...

This font supports enlargement, bringing out its shrewd details.

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