Celtic and Medieval Fonts
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- Ragnarok Scriptorium
- Ragnarok sells a package of several uncial and decorative fonts based on Celtic manuscript hands and decorative knot and spiral fonts. Both Macintosh and Windows are supported.
- P22 Kells Font
- P22 sells a package of several uncial style fonts based on the Book of Kells and similar manuscripts, and fonts for making Celtic style borders and decorations. Both Macintosh and Windows are supported.
- Gaeilge TrueType Font
- Essentially a Roman alphabet, Gaeilge is a TrueType font with extra characters and diacritics for use with Gaelic. It is the type face used in books printed in Ireland until just a few years ago; there are some minor differences between it and the normal Roman or English alphabet. This font was made by father Padraig McCarthy.
- The BigTed Celtic/Gaelic TrueType Font page
- A page of links, including one to download American Uncial, a Windows TrueType font in .zip form.
- Vintage Type
- Vintage Type sells Vintage Celtia(TM), a family of fonts with spirals, keys, and knotwork. The fonts are available as both postscript and TrueType for Macintosh and Windows.
- The SMO Gaelic College Gaelic Script Fonts
- This page has links to both Macintosh and Windows fonts, including commercial and free fonts.
- Dr. Berlin’s Gaelic and Ogham Typefaces
- Howard Berlin offers Windows Ogham and Gaelige, and other medieval style faces for Windows. This is a good site for non-Latin and international Windows typefaces in general.
- Clófhoirne Oghaim Ogham Fonts
- Another great site from Michael Everson, the authority on Ogham as typography and the Unicode Ogham standard.
- The Macintosh Font Vault
- A nicely organized and displayed page with commercial, free and shareware fonts. There are several medieval and Celtic fonts here; browse a bit in the Artsy and Script categories.
- Windows Celtic and Medieval Fonts
- This site has a wide range of both decorative fonts and letter fonts, including several modeled after manuscript hands.
- Feórag’s Free Stuff
- This is a collection of free Mac Celtic, medieval, manuscript style fonts for the Mac. Notice the Celtic interlace style desktop patterns too.
- Con Kennedy’s Celtic Mac Fonts
- Some lovely Mac only, for now, fonts, in several variants of the Uncial lettering style.