Skip to content
Home / Fonts / GLC / 1529 Champ Fleury Initials
1529 Champ Fleury Initials

1529 Champ Fleury Initials

by GLC
Individual Styles from $32.00
Complete family of 2 fonts: $50.00
1529 Champ Fleury Initials Font Family was designed by Gilles Le Corre and published by GLC. 1529 Champ Fleury Initials contains 2 styles and family package options.

More about this family
FREE 30-DAY TRIAL of Monotype Fonts to get over 150,000 fonts from more than 1,400 type foundries. Start free trial
Start free trial

1529 Champ Fleury Set

2 fonts

Best Value!

About 1529 Champ Fleury Initials Font Family


In 1529, Geofroy Tory, French scholar, engraver, printer, publisher and poet, was publishing the well known so called Champ Fleury, printed by Gilles de Gourmond, in Paris. It is a fully illustrated handbook where the author explains how to draw Roman characters. The font used for the text - a Humane/Jenson type - was not a very beautiful one, but rough and ready, and the book is well known for its capital letters designs. We are offering here the two complete historical type sets and more -- we have entirely redrawn the lacked letters: J, U and W, Eth, Lslash, Thorn and Oslash in the two initial forms. The text font, 1529 Champ Fleury Regular is now containing all characters for West European (including Celtic), Baltic, East and Central European and Turkish language, and the Initial set 1529 Champ Fleury Init is containing two complete alphabets, with a very great effort to be as close as possible to the original pictures.

Designers: Gilles Le Corre

Publisher: GLC

Foundry: GLC

Design Owner: GLC

MyFonts debut: Sep 20, 2010

1529 Champ Fleury Initials

About GLC

Gilles Le Corre was born in 1950 in Nantes, France. Painter since the end of 70s, he is also an engraver and calligrapher. He has been learning about medieval art and old books for as long as he can remember. More recently he has made the computer a tool for writing like the quill pen and ink. With it, he aims to make it possible to print books that look just like old ones! Beginning in 2007 he has been trying to reproduce, very exactly, a wide range of historic European typefaces, mainly from medieval and early periods of printing - his favorite period - from 1456 with Gutenberg, up to 1913 with a font inspired by a real old typewriter.

Read more

Read less