1790 Royal Printing OTF

From 1702 to 1811 the French Royal, then Imperial, Printers, neglected Garamond and Fournier's designs and used only the font called Romain du Roy, carved 1693 to 1723 by Philippe Grandjean by order of the king Louis XIV. "1790 Royal Printing" was inspired by various variants of "Romain du Roy" that were in use during this period. Our sources were mainly official and legal documents printed in the late royal period, and in the beginning of the French revolution. There was no bold style. The "1790 Royal Printing Caps" fonts contain small caps, plus titling caps for headlines as "1790 Royal Printing" capitals are intended to be used preferably for text. Normal and Italic styles are containing 214 Glyphs, with fi and fl standard ligatures, plus s long and s long ligatures.