1509 Leyden Font

Font Name

1509 Leyden Font

Font Family

1509 Leyden1509 Leyden

Glyphs

266

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2008 by Gilles Le Corre. All rights reserved.

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.

Posted by

Gilles Le Corre

Posted on

Jun 21, 2016

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