BC Unciala

Oldřich Menhart’s Unciála is one of the most successful attempts ever at modernizing historical letterforms. The minuscules and majuscules of the characters’ forms are timelessly combined into a unique and absolutely brilliant uncial typeface. Uncial letterforms emerged in the 3rd century by rounding Roman square capitals, the monumental Latin alphabet. They were a transitional state of Latin script somewhere between majuscule and minuscule letters. They were used as text letterforms in luxurious codices as early as the 8th century, and they have survived to this day as letterforms for titles and initials. Continue reading the full story: BC Unciála

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Typeface Design: Tomáš Brousil, Petra Dočekalová
Text: Tomáš Brousil, Petra Dočekalová
Number of fonts in a family: 3 (Grand, Regular, Petit)
Number of glyphs per font: 450
Release date: 2022
OpenType features:
Access All Alternates (aalt)
Localized Forms (locl)
Superscript (sups)
Fractions (frac)
Ordinals (ordn)
Lining Figures (lnum)
Oldstyle Figures (onum)
Case Sensitive Forms (case)
Stylistic Set 1 – Authentic Uring (ss01)
Stylistic Set 2 – Alternate Ampersand (ss02)
Stylistic Set 3 – Another Alternate Ampersand (ss03)
Stylistic Set 4 – Yet Another Alternate Ampersand (ss04)
Stylistic Set 5 – Last Alternate Ampersand (ss05)
Required Ligatures (liga)
Discretionary Ligatures (dlig)
Glyphs Composition / Decomposition (ccmp)
Standard Ligatures (liga)