a typeface by Feòrag NicBhrìde

Dearmach is inspired by the Book of Durrow, an Insular manuscript associated with the monastery at Durrow, County Offaly, Ireland and now kept at Trinity College, Dublin. The name comes from the location of a famous monastery which Bede says was founded by Colum Cille and which is thought to be that at Durrow.

I've kept much of the roughness of the original handwriting, but the lower-case g has been modernised somewhat to make it more legible, and those characters which did not exist at the time (including all the numerals) are my own creation. Apart from a few of the mathematical symbols, this font has an complete character set.

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