This font was inspired from the so called “Insular Style” Latin script used in Celtic monasteries (Ireland, Scotland -with the well known “Book of Kells”- and England) from the late 6th to 9th, before the Carolingian “Caroline” . It was a regular script, rounded, written slowly, used mainly for specially meticulous books, with a very little few of ligatures. The rarely used capitals was consisting in enlarged lowercases, but, on the other hand, there was numerous historiated initials.
The Titling file proposed allow to create two colors decorated letters, using OTF Titling feature or copy and paste technic.
We have created the font as to be adapted for contemporary users, making difference between U and V, I and J, which has not any relevance for ancient Latin scribes, and naturally with Thorn, Oslash, Lslash, K,W… The specific Celtic “y” is added as an historical alternate.
Family Name: 799 Insular
Original design © Gilles Le Corre 2010
Foundry: GLC
ReleaseYear: 2010(version1)
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