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Dumha Goirt

Dumha Goirt™

by Evertype
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Complete family of 4 fonts: $40.00
Dumha Goirt Font Family was designed by Michael Everson and published by Evertype. Dumha Goirt contains 4 styles and family package options.

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Dumha Goirt

4 fonts

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  • Dumha Goirt Dumha Goirt

  • Dumha Goirt Oblique Dumha Goirt Oblique

  • Dumha Goirt Bold Dumha Goirt Bold

  • Dumha Goirt Bold Oblique Dumha Goirt Bold Oblique

Per style:

$10.00

Pack of 4 styles:

$40.00

About Dumha Goirt Font Family


Dumha Goirt is based on the Watts font used in the early 19th century. Dumha Goirt was first digitized in 1997 by Michael Everson and originally used the MacGaelic character set on the Macintosh platform, and ISO/IEC 8859-14 on the PC. The older version of the font was named “Acaill”. In 2011 Dumha Goirt version 3 was released in OpenType format, completely compliant with Unicode encoding and with an extended character set. Dumha Goirt is pronounced [ˈduː ɡɔrʲtʲ]. This is a small village on Acaill where Edward Nangle had the Achill Island Mission which used the Watts type for Bibles and for the Rev. William Neilson's “An Introduction to the Irish Language”. The town’s name was anglicized as Doogort [ˌduːˈɡɔɹt].

Designers: Michael Everson

Publisher: Evertype

Foundry: Evertype

Design Owner: Evertype

MyFonts debut: Jun 13, 2011

Dumha Goirt™ is a trademark of Evertype.

About Evertype

Evertype is a font foundry, typesetting, software, and publishing company based in Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland. Founded by Michael Everson, Evertype supports minority-language communities, especially in the fields of character standardization and internationalization. Michael is is one of the co-authors of the Unicode Standard, and is a Contributing Editor and Irish National Representative to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2, the committee responsible for the development and maintenance of the Universal Character Set. CeltScript is Michael's ongoing effort to provide high-quality reproductions of the Gaelic fonts historically used to print the Irish language since the first book was printed in 1571. In addition, he continues to design some "new" Gaelic fonts which are, he believes, authentic to the Celtic tradition. He has also made available the typefaces employed on the Irish typewriters which were in use earlier this century.

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