Designers: Hans van Maanen, Marcel Jacno
Publisher: Canada Type
Gaulois was designed by Hans van Maanen, Marcel Jacno and published by Canada Type.
Gaulois consists of 1 style. p > A couple of years prior to the second World War, Marcel Jacno, the popular French graphic designer who in the 1930s developed renowned posters for Gaumont and Paramount and notoriously showed the Gaulish helmet that first decorated the
Gauloises cigarette packs in 1936, was asked by Deberny & & Peignot to design a calligraphic typeface for the advertising market. Jacno's Scribe design, billed by D&P as a 'virile ad writing' typeface, was released to some terrific fanfare in 1937, enjoyed some time of French spotlight, and was all set to make waves in the rest of Europe prior to the war broke out and snuffed its chances at international acknowledgment. Nevertheless, samples of it can still be discovered in some specialty post-war publications as an example of a pattern that lasted a number of years, when Western European type producers commissioned popular visual artists to create typefaces in order to capitalize on the artists' popularity - the trend that brought us requirements like Futura and the long list of Lucien Bernhard and Imre Reiner faces.
This exclusive digital version of Jacno's style broadens on the initial concept with a large character set that includes plenty of alternates, a couple of various methods for seamless lowercase connections, 3 sets of figures, and extended Latin language assistance, amounting to over 540 characters in a one big, contextually-programmed typeface.
Font Family: Gaulois
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, advertising, calligraphic, calligraphy, classic, connected, french, handletter, invitation, masculine, script, traditional, vintage, wedding, xmas