Irish Font Club newsletter #1
Segotia, a free open source Irish font by Stanley fonts
Welcome to the Irish Font Club by Stanley fonts.
Who are we?
Stanley fonts is an independent type foundry based in Dublin. We specialise in making custom fonts for branding.
What’s this?
This is a place to talk about our latest Irish font releases.
What’s in it for you?
We offer our subscribers open source Irish fonts for free. The first of which is Segotia and its available for download on Github now. We’d love you to download the font and make use of it. It would be amazing to see what you do with the font and we’d be delighted to showcase any work! The licence is free (see below), we just ask that you credit us in any published work. Feel free to offer feedback, make requests or commission custom fonts of your own! It would be great to turn this into a place where people can chat about Irish fonts.
Download Segotia on Github
This is Segotia, the first font release by Irish Font Club. Its a free font Inspired by the Intertype Bold Irish Type font from 1913. This is a regular upright Irish script with a slightly condensed width. It features all 36 letters from the original (upper & lowercase), old Irish characters (long s, long r, tironian et, dot séimiú) + modern alternatives. I've made some changes, its not as heavy and the in and out-strokes are more abstract. This single weight font works best in Irish but it can handle a mix of English and Irish languages and can be used as display and body text. It can be "more" or "less" old Irish depending on the long s alternate. There are 150 characters with this release. Please let me know if you want something particular to be added. Even for other language uses.
Segotia isn't a gaelic word, its old Dublin slang and is mostly used in the context of "me aul segotia" which may be roughly translated as "me old mucker" and if you don't know what that means, I can't help you any further... Try here: https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/ifs-and-butties-and-old-segotias-an-irishman-s-diary-about-dublin-words-for-friend-1.3483351
https://github.com/insert-smiley/Irishfontclub-segotia
Licence SIL Open Font Licence v1.1. This is a free software licence that permits you to use the font software under a set of conditions. Please refer to the full text of the licence for details about the permissions, conditions, and disclaimers. https://openfontlicense.or
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