Download 1742 Civilite Font Family Style

Download 1742 Civilite Font Family Style

In the late medieval period appeared a "semi-cursive" writing, the French "criture de civilit". Quickly, it is carved and melted down in lead for printing.

It is a very elegant running font, with numerous variants, both final than initial characters, many of the accented small characters were present in the model I was inspired by, after Fournier Le jeune , in his catalogue "Modles des caractres de l'imprimerie et des autres choses ncessaires au dit art nouvellement gravs par Simon-Pierre Fournier le jeune" published in 1742 in Paris. More…

A render sheet, included in the font file, makes all characters easy to identify on keyboard. This font, very attractive and decorative may be used for web-site titles, posters and flyer designs, editing ancient texts, labels, greeting cards... and anything you want! It supports as easily enlargement as small size, remaining elegant and pretty.

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