Sligeach font - A reprint font of a 19th Gaelic type font.

Sligeach (Irish name for Sligo) font is a revived version of a Gaelic font (Fry font) used in some books. The font is mainly adapted from * A practical grammar of the Irish language* (by Owen Connellan in 1844), and the name is named from the linguist's birthplace.

The font is referenced from:

• A Practical Grammar of the Irish Language (Owen Connellan, 1844, main source)
• Focloir Gaoidhilge - Sacs-bearla, or an Irish - English dictionary (Thomas De Vere Coneys, 1849).

There are three version of it:

• Sligeach Original.ttf : the small u is like v, and it doesn't contain some ligatures (eg. ea, rr) listed in A Practical Grammar of the Irish Language, p.13.
• Sligeach Round u.ttf : the small u is round, like roman-type u, and it doesn't contain some ligatures (eg. ea, rr) listed in APGIL, p.13.
• Sligeach Ligature.ttf : the small u is like v, and it contains all ligatures (including ea, rr) listed in APGIL, p.13.

It contains some punctuations(:;*,.?!‘’“”'-), but contains no numbers and without jkqvxwyz.

Version

• 0.1.0 (2020-03-22): add basic characters
• 0.1.0.1 (2020-03-22, Sligeach Ligature.ttf only) - add ligature ao

Demos

Ligatures

ligatures in all fonts

Contraction for	Picture	How to type (Unicode)
ae		æ (U+00E6)
an		ā (U+0101)
agus		⁊ (U+204A)
acht or cht		s̄ (s + U+0304)
go		ḡ (s + U+0304)
gur		g᷒ (s + U+1DD2)
na		ṉ (U+1E49)
nn		n̄ (n + U+0304)

ligatures only in sligeach_ligature.ttf

Contraction for	Picture	How to type	Notice
ar		ar	ligaturized only between spaces (eg. " ar ")
air		air	ligaturized only between spaces (eg. " air ")
ao		ao
ea		ea
rr		rr
si		si
ui		ui
.i.		.i.

Issues

• ar & air are only ligaturized after some non-space characters and space(s).
• The font height is too high.