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1785 GLC Baskerville

by GLC
Individual Styles from $42.00 USD
Complete family of 2 fonts: $60.00 USD
1785 GLC Baskerville Font Family was designed by published by GLC. 1785 GLC Baskerville contains 2 styles and family package options.

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1785 GLC Baskerville Set

2 fonts

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Per style:

$30.00 USD

Pack of 2 styles:

$60.00 USD

About 1785 GLC Baskerville Font Family


This family was created/inspired from the well-known Baskerville Roman and Italic typefaces created by John Baskerville, the English font designer. We were inspired by the original family sent by Baskerville’s wife after his death. The full Baskerville collection was bought by the French editor and author Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais who used it to print - in Switzerland - for the first time the complete works of Voltaire (known as the “Kehl edition” from the "Imprimerie de la société littéraire typographique"). We have used this edition, with copies from 1785, to reconstruct these two genuine historical styles. The font faces, kerning, and spacing are scrupulously identical to the original. This Pro font includes characters for Western, Eastern and Central European languages (including Celtic) and Turkish, with a complete set of small caps, standard and “long s” ligatures in each of the two styles.

Designers:

Publisher: GLC

Foundry: GLC

Design Owner: GLC

MyFonts debut: Apr 5, 2011

1785 GLC Baskerville

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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