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Description

P22 Kelly is a Celtic-styled uncial font with a medieval gothic flavor and an overall contemporary feel. The font is an addition to Ted Staunton’s collection of historical and period-based fonts. It is ideal for uses that need to evoke the Celtic spirit or the medieval period.

Based on half-uncial Irish monastic handwriting of the 8th to 10th centuries, but instead of having a traditional upright stress, has an italic slant. Some Gothic influence is evident—like the thorn-like tick-marks decorating the capitals—but the rounded forms of h, m, n, u emphasize a wide, open, horizontal visual texture. The font is named in honor of the Book of Kells, the 8th-century masterpiece of Celtic calligraphic art, which is kept in Trinity College, Dublin.

Designed by Ted Staunton. Kelly is a font family from P22 Type Foundry—a member of The Type Founders collection. For additional license options like app, enterprise, multi-user, and self-hosted web, visit P22 Type Foundry.

Type Designer

P22 Type Foundry

P22 Type Foundry specializes in historical typefaces inspired by art, history, and science. The company was created in 1994 in Buffalo, New York, by co-founders Richard Kegler and Carima El-Behairy. The breathtaking array of fonts — which have appeared in films and on numerous commercial products — offers an impressive cornucopia of styles for companies and designers. The P22 Type Foundry collection focuses on historical letterforms that would never have been available in digital form otherwise.

P22 Type Foundry is a member of The Type Founders collection.

Licensing Information
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Visit P22 Type Foundry to purchase additional licensing and services, including:
Mobile Apps: Embed fonts in your app UI
Self Hosting: Host web font files on your own server
Custom Services: Request modifications or bespoke fonts directly from the foundry
Volume licensing: Use the fonts across your whole organization
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How to Use

You may encounter slight variations in the name of this font, depending on where you use it. Here’s what to look for.

Desktop

In application font menus, this font will display:

{{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_family_name}} {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_subfamily_name}}

Web

To use this font on your website, use the following CSS:


font-family: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.family.css_font_stack.replace('"', '').replace('",', ', ')}};
font-style: italicnormal;
font-weight: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.font.web.weight}};
        

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