Click on the appropriate file name to begin downloading.
Vincent Morley, Colum Twomey and others have created a number of fonts
for print and the web and made them available.
You can download a selection of fonts below...
Bunchló and Bunchló dubh
Bunchló and its partner Bunchló dubh are the Arial and
Arial Black of the Irish font world. They are the most popular of the
available fonts for Windows and are used on this site.
These fonts include pointed consonants (so you don't have to keep using
'h')
For Windows: bunchlo.zip
(44kB)
Last updated: 20/10/00
Bunnchló troim is a bold font based on Bunchló.
For Windows: bunt-t.zip
(44kB)
Last updated: 11/09/03
Bunchló na Nod
Bunchló na Nod is a specialist font, based on Bunchló, with
extra characters (contractions) for printing manuscripts and historical
documents.
For Windows: bunnod-t.zip (25kB)
Last updated: 02/06/03
Aonchló GC
Aonchló is a monospace font like Courier, designed to look
like a typewriter, it is excellent for reports and tables.
For Windows: aongc-t.zip (38kB)
Last updated: 14/01/05
Aonchló troim is a bold font based on Aonchló.
For Windows: aontgc-t.zip (39kB)
Last updated: 14/01/05
Bunársa
Bunársa is similar to Bunchló, using traditional characters for an
old-style look.
For Macintosh: bunars-1.zip (63kB)
Last updated: 20/10/00
For Windows: bunars-t.zip (45kB)
Last updated: 20/10/00
Seanchló
Seanchló is a calligraphy style font for printing. It is
accompanied by Seanchló Dubh.
For Windows: seanchlo.zip
(46kB)
Last updated: 06/06/98
Glanchló
Glanchló is a very modern font, mainly for reading online. It uses
Helvetica-style characters.
For Windows: glanchlo.zip (17kB)
Last updated: 06/06/98
Cló Gaelach (Twomey)
Cló Gaelach is Colum Twomey's font for printing. It does not
have some traditional characters.
For Windows: gaelach.zip (17kB)
Last updated: 04/10/93
Beth-Luis-Nion
(Ogham)
Beth-Luis-Nion is Curtis Clark's font for Ogham. It's been the
standard ogham font for the web for a while. Michael Everson (see below) has
also created a number of beautiful ogham fonts for special purposes.
For Windows: bln.zip (14kB)
Last updated: 06/03/94
Links to other sites
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Michael Everson has created many exquisite
commercial Celtic script fonts |
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More about Vincent Morley's work |
Gaelspell3 is the latest spelling checker for Windows from Cruinneog.com.
You can download a free versions for Windows here
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GaelSpell3.exe
(889 kb) do Microsoft Office 2000 agus leaganacha eile de Office a
foilsíodh le déanaí
for Microsoft Office 2000 and other recently published versions of
Office
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GaelSpellLite1c.exe
(127 kb) do Microsoft Word 97 agus leaganacha níos déanaí
for Microsoft Word 97 and later
Or, for the commercial version with CD and extras, and for other platforms,
visit:
You can download a free versions for Mac OS at Michael Everson's site:
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