Download 1792 La Marseillaise Font Family

Download 1792 La Marseillaise Font Family

Download 1792 La Marseillaise Font Family

This font, was created -- inspired from the original manuscript of the French revolutionary song La Marseillaise, becoming later the French national anthem, composed in one night (1792 April 25th) by the 32 year old French captain, Rouget de Lisle.

It is a Pro font containing Western (including Celtic) and Northern European, Icelandic, Baltic, Eastern, Central European and Turkish diacritics. The numerous alternates and ligatures make the font look as close as possible to the real historic hand. Using an OTF software, the features allow variations of each character without anything to do but to select contextual alternates and standard ligatures and/or stylistic alternates options.

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Download 1792 La Marseillaise Font Family Style

Download 1792 La Marseillaise Font Family Style

Download 1792 La Marseillaise Font Family

This font, was created -- inspired from the original manuscript of the French revolutionary song La Marseillaise, becoming later the French national anthem, composed in one night (1792 April 25th) by the 32 year old French captain, Rouget de Lisle.

It is a Pro font containing Western (including Celtic) and Northern European, Icelandic, Baltic, Eastern, Central European and Turkish diacritics. The numerous alternates and ligatures make the font look as close as possible to the real historic hand. Using an OTF software, the features allow variations of each character without anything to do but to select contextual alternates and standard ligatures and/or stylistic alternates options.

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Download 1786 GLC Fournier Font Family

Download 1786 GLC Fournier Font Family

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This family was inspired by numerous documents and books printed in Paris during the end of the 1700s. Mainly, documents printed by P.G. Simon & N.H. Nyon, “Printers of the parliament” were used for the Normal and italic styles and “Caps”. “Titling” characters were coming from a collection of hymns printed by Nicolas Chapart. In France these Fournier characters, as Baskerville in Great Britain, were the most often in use in the late 1700s, just before the Didot designs.

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Download 1786 GLC Fournier Font Family Style

Download 1786 GLC Fournier Font Family Style

Download 1786 GLC Fournier Font Family

family of 6 fonts from GLC

This family was inspired by numerous documents and books printed in Paris during the end of the 1700s. Mainly, documents printed by P.G. Simon & N.H. Nyon, “Printers of the parliament” were used for the Normal and italic styles and “Caps”. “Titling” characters were coming from a collection of hymns printed by Nicolas Chapart. In France these Fournier characters, as Baskerville in Great Britain, were the most often in use in the late 1700s, just before the Didot designs.

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Download 1781 La FayettStylee Family Style

Download 1781 La FayettStylee Family Style

Download 1781 La FayettStylee Font Family

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This font was inspired from the numerous font-types looking like Hand-carved in the 1700’s. The capitals are mainly inspired from the font carved by Fournier in year 1781, the year of the famous American and French decisive victory at Yorktown, and drawn by Benjamin Franklin himself, and the lower cases are inspired from the well known "btarde coule" style, ornamented with final loops and enriched with alternates and ligatures.

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Download 1742 Civilite Font Family Style

Download 1742 Civilite Font Family Style

In the late medieval period appeared a "semi-cursive" writing, the French "criture de civilit". Quickly, it is carved and melted down in lead for printing.

It is a very elegant running font, with numerous variants, both final than initial characters, many of the accented small characters were present in the model I was inspired by, after Fournier Le jeune , in his catalogue "Modles des caractres de l'imprimerie et des autres choses ncessaires au dit art nouvellement gravs par Simon-Pierre Fournier le jeune" published in 1742 in Paris. More…

A render sheet, included in the font file, makes all characters easy to identify on keyboard. This font, very attractive and decorative may be used for web-site titles, posters and flyer designs, editing ancient texts, labels, greeting cards... and anything you want! It supports as easily enlargement as small size, remaining elegant and pretty.

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Download 1715 Jonathan Swift Font Family

Download 1715 Jonathan Swift Font Family

The famous Irish poet and novelist Jonathan Swift (Dublin 1667-1745) has a large personal library of which he noticed carefully the book list by himself. We have used a facsimile from this catalogue to reconstruct this present font, as one exemple of the personal poet’s hands but also as a typical exemple of the British quill pen handwriting from about mid 1600’s to the beginning of 1700’s .

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It is a “Pro” font containing Western (including Celtic) and Northern European, Icelandic, Baltic, Eastern, Central European and Turquish diacritics.

The numerous alternates and ligatures allow to made the font looking as closely as possible to the real hand. Using an OTF software, the features allow to vary automatically almost each character of a word without anything to do but to select contextual alternates and standard ligatures and/or stylistic alternates options.

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