

Avoid using it at small sizes, however, or you will lose the contrast between the thick and thin elements of the strokes.ĭata by URW. Its rounded, calligraphic strokes make it a beautiful face at large sizes. American Uncial is comparable to the New Hammer Uncial made in 1953. American Uncial was more recently made in Germany by URW. Solemnis, which was drawn for the Berthold foundry in 1954, offers a single case with a mixture of letters resembling uppercase and lowercase characters. Celtic Garamond the 2nd Font Developer: Levi Halmos License: Free for personal use. Mael Font Developer: Utopia License: Free. For example, Hammer Uncial, designed in 1923, shows how lovely these letterforms were in old manuscripts. Displaying 1-40 from a total of 99 free Celtic fonts. Click here to download 1000+ free icons to use in your websites or UI designs Good for beer, whiskey, Scotland / Ireland / Norway / Sweden related products, as well as magic or gaming niches.

Readable yet very Celtic, medieval, Viking kind of look. The distinctive calligraphic style of Uncial letterforms has inspired quite a few variations. Lodbrok Calligraphic font inspired by uncial and gothic cursive scripts. Uncial letterforms go back to handwriting found in Latin and Greek manuscripts of the fourth to the eighth centuries A.D., long before the evolution of the ornate English black letter (particularly popular in the Middle Ages) or today's ubiquitous roman with its serifs.
