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Available packs:

17C Print OT Pack
Rustic Capitals OT Pack
Written Square Capitals OT Pack
Uncial OT Pack

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Uncial OT Pack

This Single Typeface Pack contains one font: Uncial OT

Important Note: To access historical characters and the special OpenType features in this font, you will need to use an OpenType enabled application. Office for Windows provides this as standard; Mac users will need to be using Apple TextEdit, Pages, Microsoft Office 2004+, the Adobe CS range or Quark XPress 7. See opentype for full details.

Typeface display:

Uncial contains the standard Uncial black letters in the lower-case alphabet; and illuminated capitals in the upper-case alphabet; the capitals can be used for initial letters of a page or section, or for title pages.

OpenType Features:

[OpenType Feature Key | OpenType Information]

Historical note:

Uncials originated in the 2nd century along with the codex form of book. It is speculated that they were canonised in the early 4th century when Constantine was Emperor as the principal liturgical book hand for Christian works, replacing quadrata and rustic capitals used in pagan writings. This became their principal use, throughout the 5th to 8th centuries, for entire texts. The word Uncial has been translated as meaning ‘inch high’, but why the script was so called has never been satisfacorily explained.