Download 1589 Humane Bordeaux Font Family Style
Download 1589 Humane Bordeaux Font Family
This family was created inspired from the Garamond patern set of fonts used by S. Millanges “imprimeur ordinaire du Roy”, in Bordeaux, circa 1580-1590. Especially for reprint L'instruction des curs (Instructions to parish priests), from Jean Gerson.
The set contains two styles, Normal and Italic, the second one with a lot of caps and ligatures variants.
The initials, except a few decorated letters (six in total) where only large caps, covering no more than three lines. Added are a few fleurons. More…
Its original cap height is about five millimeters. Decorated letters like 1512 Initials, 1550 Arabesques, 1565 Venetian, can be used with this family without anachronism.
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