aun­cial – Ar­ti­fi­cial Un­cial manuscript book-hand font

The aun­cial and al­launcl pack­ages pro­vide Meta­font fonts based on the Ar­ti­fi­cial Un­cial manuscript book-hand used be­tween the 6^th and 10^th cen­tury AD. The font con­sists of mi­nus­cules and dig­its, with some ap­pro­pri­ate pe­riod punc­tu­a­tion marks. Both nor­mal and bold ver­sions are pro­vided. Note that the font is avail­able sep­a­rately in Adobe Type 1 for­mat, as the ar­ti­fi­cial un­cial ‘new’ pack­age.
This is one of a set of manuscript fonts. Ac­cess to the docmfp pack­age is de­sir­able but not es­sen­tial.