799 Insular is a historic typeface family. This typeface has 2 styles and was released by GLC Foundry.

This typeface was inspired from the so called "Insular Design" Latin script utilized in Celtic monasteries (Ireland, Scotland -with the well known "Book of Kells"- and England) from the late 6th to 9th, before the Carolingian "Caroline" (take a look at our "825 Karolus"). It was a regular script, rounded, written slowly, utilized mainly for specialy careful books, with a very little few of ligatures. The hardly ever used capitals was consisting in enlarged lowercases, however, on the other hand, there was numerous historiated initials.
The Titling file proposed allow to develop 2 colours embellished letters, using OTF Entitling function or copy and paste technic.
We have actually created the typeface as to be adapted for modern users, making difference in between U and V, I and J, which has not any relevance for ancient Latin scribes, and naturally with Thorn, Oslash, Lslash, K, W… … The particular Celtic "y" is added as a historical alternate.

Font Family:
· 799 Insular Normal
· 799 Insular Titling