page_title: Gaelic type
section_title: Samples
hierarchical_section_title: Gaelic type / Samples
caption_attribution_description: English: I made this image myself with my own font. Evertype 18:54, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
context_page_description: Gaelic type is a family of Insular script typefaces devised for printing Classical Gaelic. It was widely used from the 16th until the mid-18th century or the mid-20th century 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 Irish phrase cló Gaelach. In Ireland, the term cló Gaelach is used in opposition to the term cló Rómhánach, Roman type.
  The Scottish Gaelic term is corra-litir. Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair was one of the last Scottish writers with the ability to write in this script, but his main work, Ais-Eiridh na Sean Chánoin Albannaich, was published in the Roman script.
caption: Duibhlinn (digital font 1993, based on Monotype Series 24 A, 1906)
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