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1509 Leyden Font

Font Id: 50757
Font Name: 1509 Leyden Font
Font Format: OpenType Mac/Win
Font Family: 1509 Leyden1509 Leyden
Glyphs: 266
Price: $49.00
Description: This blackletter font was created inspired from the set who was used in Leyden by Jan Seversz to print "Breviores elegantioresque epistolae [...]", by author Francesco Filfelo, circa 1509.

The original font contains all lower case characters, excepted w, eth, thorn, l slash, oslash and so... and almost upper case. In addition, one set of small lombardic initials were also nearly complete, offering a really and rare complete historical printing set...

The original lower case "a" hight was 2,8 mm ! the upper case hight no more than nearly 5 mm, the initials hight almost 15 mm, covering nearly two lines.

This font (third version) includes "long s", naturally, as typically medieval and also a few ligatures, but not any variants. We have entirely recreated some characters, upper, lower and initials, to fill gaps.
OpenType: Standard, Contextual Alternates, Historical Ligatures, Standard Ligatures, Titling Alternates
Posted by: Gilles Le Corre
Soon after he was born, Gilles got away from his crazy family to become a sailor.
After discovering Chinese painting by chance on his voyages, he begins to paint seriously in the 1970s.
After many jobs he has lived by painting since 1987, with a studio first in Nantes, then Paris (from '86 to '90) and since then in Ceilhes et Rocozels (Occitanie), France.
He married Cat, his preferred model, in 1984, and to them a wonderful daughter was born in 1986.
Since 2007, he has been designing fonts, first for his own use, and since the beginning of 2008, for sale online, it was the beginning of "GLC foundry".
Posted on: Jun 21, 2016
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Licensing available: Desktop, WebFont, Mobile App & ePub

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