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1509 Leyden

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1509 Leyden is a GLC font family with 2 styles priced from $16.00.

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1509 Leyden


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  1509 Leyden Normal Any OpenType FeaturesBasic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsLigaturesOpenType Contextual
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  1509 Leyden Bold Basic Latin/English letters
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$16.00

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: August 27th, 2008
Designed when: 2008
Contained in Categories: Blackletter, Decorative & Display
Design owned by: GLC
MyFonts Keywords: 1600s, ancient, antiqued, blackletter, decorative, dutch, fancy, greetings, headline, incunabula, initial, invitation, irregular, lombardic, medieval, menus, oldstyle, ornamental, poster, renaissance, rough, rustic, scrapbook, square, textura, vintage, wedding, Xmas


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...

The original small “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 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.

It is 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, menus, certificates, as a very decorative, elegant and unusual font, besides its historical scrupulous reality...

This font supports enlargement as well as small size.


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