Gaelic type

Gaelic type (sometimes called Irish character, Irish type, or Gaelic script) is a family of Insular script typefaces devised for printing Early Modern Irish. It was widely used from the 16th century until the mid-18th century in Scotland and the mid-20th century in Ireland, but is now rarely used. Sometimes, all Gaelic typefaces are called Celtic or uncial although most Gaelic types are not uncials. The "Anglo-Saxon" types of the 17th century are included in this category because both the Anglo-Saxon types and the Gaelic/Irish types derive from the insular manuscript hand. The terms Gaelic type, Gaelic script and Irish character translate the Modern Irish phrase cló Gaelach. In Ireland, the term cló Gaelach is used in contrast to the term cló Rómhánach, Roman type. The Scots Gaelic term is corra-litir. Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (c.

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