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1456 Gutenberg Font Download

1456 Gutenberg was published by GLC. 1456 Gutenberg contains 1 style.  

Font designed from that used by Gutenberg in Mayence to print the 42-line bible in 1456.

The original font has too many characters for a true type font. Many of them have – in 2008 – no more utility. This font include ‘long s’, naturally, as typicaly medieval, but also a lot of ligatures and abbreviations as ‘…us’, ‘…rum’ ‘…s’ ‘…r…’. A render sheet, added, help to identify them on keyboard.

Uses include web-site titles, posters and flier designs, editing ancient texts or greeting cards as a very decorative font… This font support easily as enlargement as small size, remaining clear and easy to read.