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2008 Xmas Fantasy

2008 Xmas Fantasy by GLC
Licenses from $38.00
Complete family of 2 fonts: $38.00
2008 Xmas Fantasy Font Family was published by GLC. 2008 Xmas Fantasy contains 4 styles and family package options. More about this family
  • 2008 Xmas Fantasy Normal 2008 Xmas Fantasy Normal

  • 2008 Xmas Fantasy Bold 2008 Xmas Fantasy Bold

Per Style: $19.00

Pack of 2 : $38.00

  • 2008 Xmas Fantasy Normal 2008 Xmas Fantasy Normal

  • 2008 Xmas Fantasy Bold 2008 Xmas Fantasy Bold

Per Style: $19.00

Pack of 2 : $38.00

About 2008 Xmas Fantasy Font Family


This family is an entirely original creation, drawn in the spirit of ornamental blackletters like those designed by the 19th century. It contains two styles : the first (Normal) of decorated blackletters, upper and lower case, the second (Bold) of two sets of Lombarde capitals, both outlined. As usual, the discreet irregular charming aspect due to the manual engraving work was preserved. Added are a few ornaments. The two styles are containing Thorn, Eth, L slash and O slash. It can be used as variously as web-site titles, posters and flyers design, publishing texts looking like ancient ones, greeting cards, all various sorts of presentations, as a very decorative, elegant and, mostly, a funny pretty font... This font can be enlarged, possibly strongly, remaining fine, just as easily be legible from 6 points.

Publisher: GLC

Foundry: GLC

Design Owner: GLC

MyFonts debut: Oct 1, 2008

2008 Xmas Fantasy

About GLC

Gilles Le Corre was born in 1950 in Nantes, France. A 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. All his fonts are based on historical research, identifying whenever possible printers and punch cutters, cities and countries, that represent a time and style. Often, they are "eroded", an aesthetic choice because old printed texts have this rough and imperfect appearance. The punctuation signs of the time (mainly , ; . : - / | ( ) ' " ? and ! when available) are always respected as they were in contemporary documents. Every font is completed with arabic numbers, accented characters and any missing characters (such as the W and K which were not used in French medieval books or Latin texts, for exemple), plus any others of which no original instance can be found, along with typical ligatures, abbreviated letters, and final or initial characters, like the final "long s" and the initial or median "long s" , and more. They are all described in a render sheet that accompanies each font file.