Colm Ó’Lochlainn was born in Dublin in 1892, and he died in 1972. He founded the Three Candle Press in 1926. In 1936, he created
Colmcille® for the English Monotype Corporation. The typeface was digitized by his son Dara Ó’Lochlainn in 1993.
Colmcille Font Family is part of the
Monotype Library OpenType Edition.