page_title: Vox-ATypI classification
section_title: Gaelic
hierarchical_section_title: Vox-ATypI classification / Calligraphics / Gaelic
caption_attribution_description: English: Sample of Duibhlinn
context_page_description: In typography, the Vox-ATypI classification makes it possible to classify typefaces into general classes. Devised by Maximilien Vox in 1954, it was adopted in 1962 by the Association Typographique Internationale and in 1967 as a British Standard, as British Standards Classification of Typefaces, which is a very basic interpretation and adaptation/modification of the earlier Vox-ATypI classification.
  Vox proposed a nine-type classification which tends to group typefaces according to their main characteristics, often typical of a particular century, based on a number of formal criteria: downstroke and upstroke, forms of serifs, stroke axis, x-height, etc. Although the Vox-ATypI classification defines archetypes of typefaces, many typefaces can exhibit the characteristics of more than one class.
  At the 2010 ATypI general meeting, the association voted to make a minor amendment to add Gaelic to the calligraphic group in the Vox-ATypI classification, to state that the Vox-ATypI system was seriously flawed, and to create a new working group on typeface classification.
context_section_description: Gaelic type was added to the classification at the AGM of the Dublin meeting of ATypI, on 12 September 2010.
caption: Duibhlinn, a Gaelic typeface
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