It's time for my Desert Bus 2025 art thread!

I. Querying

Alpha Flight were talking about Kathleen's novel progress on Day 1 (2:26). #DanOlson's reflections resonated with me, especially as I've been submitting my poetry to journals.

First time I'm doing illumination!

I messed layout up badly and had to restart, alas. Very behind where I wanted to be!

Strathcona 400 series wove finish paper, Winsor and Newton inks.

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Darach

Darach is Gaelic for “Oak”

The character set includes support for virtually every language which can be written in Latin script. The letters are mostly Insular in style. If you prefer, you can select Stylistic Set 01 (Not Insular), and this will give you more modern Latin forms of B, D, G, d, and g.

Maybe you’d prefer a totally Insular look? If you are using an application that allows you to set your language to Traditional Irish, then it should work automagically through the power of OpenType language support. I can’t test this myself. But, Stylistic Set 02 (All-Insular) has you covered for the otherwise modern R, S, r and s:

There is also a set of initial capital letters. If you like the spirals from Dearmach, turn this on! The PDF in the download provides help on accessing the features in Affinity Publisher and Adobe InDesign.

What’s in the archive?

This archive contains an OTF font, which can be used on Classic MacOS, MacOS X, Linux and Windows. It includes the following files:

About Darach.pdf – info about the fonts.

Darach-Regular.otf– the font file. In MacOS X, double click on this to see a preview. Click on the “Install Font” button to install. For earlier versions of Mac OS, this file should go in the ‘Fonts’ folder in the System Folder. For other platforms, please refer to the documentation.

OFL.txt – the Open Font License text.

FONTLOG.txt – detailed information about this font.

OFL-FAQ.txt – frequently asked questions about the SIL Open Font License

License and Notes

Darach is licensed under the SIL Open Font License.

Download Darach

The original font, Dearmach, is here.

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