Insular Minuscule Pack
This Single Typeface Pack
contains one font:
Insular Minuscule OT/AAT
Important Note:
The full character set can be accessed in any Windows or
Macintosh application, but extra functionality is
available with OpenType/AAT enabled applications. See advanced type for full
details.
Typeface display:
OpenType Features:
           
 Large glyph variants of particular
characters.
AAT Features:
Standard Ligatures, Historical Forms, Historical
Ligatures, Latin Abbreviations (general), Latin
Abbreviations (specific), British runes, Alternative
Letter Forms, Medieval English Usage, Mathematical
Symbols, Glyph Variants.
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Type Information]
Historical note:
Insular Minuscule (also known as Anglo-Saxon
Minuscule) developed in the eighth century as a
less ostentatious successor to insular half-uncial. This
development was the particular British response to the
Carolingian minuscule emerging in continental Europe. The
hand was used for vernacular books between the 8th and
11th centuries, also as glossing (notes) on earlier celtic
manuscripts. This typeface is a deliberate and well-formed
Anglo-Saxon minuscule of a mostly pointed form, which
gives a bold colour; it includes the old English
characters of thorn, eth, wynne and historical letter
forms such as long-s and long-e.
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