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1863 Gettysburg

1863 Gettysburg

by GLC
Individual Styles from $38.00
Complete family of 2 fonts: $60.00
1863 Gettysburg Font Family was designed by Gilles Le Corre and published by GLC. 1863 Gettysburg contains 2 styles and family package options.

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1863 Gettysburg Family

2 fonts

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$30.00

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$60.00

About 1863 Gettysburg Font Family


This script font was inspired by a lot of autographs, notes and drafts, written by President Abraham Lincoln, mainly the Gettysburg address, first draft and copies, but also the emancipation proclamation. It is an attempt to offer a typical manual script from this American period, not to propose the exact writing from A. Lincoln himself. This font is a little fat and monotone, maybe Abraham Lincoln used a smooth or rounded pen, but some letters I have consulted were written obviously with a sharp one, so, in the future, I will certainly produce a slim version of this font. It is used as variously as web-site titles, posters and fliers design or greeting cards, all various sorts of presentations, menus, certificates, letters. This font supports enlargement as well as small size, though the original size was about 18 to 24 pts. When printed, it remain perfectly legible from 10 to 12 pts.

Designers: Gilles Le Corre

Publisher: GLC

Foundry: GLC

Design Owner: GLC

MyFonts debut: Sep 5, 2008

1863 Gettysburg

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.

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