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Egyptian Fonts
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Fonts by R. Kainhofer


There are many people that create fonts for Hieroglyphics. The listing here will contain both free and shareware fonts. Please check with the originating authors for actual costs, if any. However, the majority of the postings, as best as possible, will be free from the authors for personal use.

For the beginner, here are a few online tutorials:

bulletReading Hieroglyphs - The First Steps
bulletCopyright © 1998, Egyptologica Vlaanderen VZW
Base URL: http://hosting.netvision.be/egyptologica

 

 

A collection of free fonts by R. Kainhofer.

Reinhold Kainhofer
Pichl 27
A - 5441 Abtenau, AUSTRIA
e-mails: •rk_fonts@geocities.com •rk@cryogen.com •reinhold.kainhofer@kfunigraz.ac.at

RK Ancient Fonts are a collection of TrueType fonts for MS Windows (Version 3.1 upwards):

bulletSymbol Accentuated (Sample)
bulletRK Sanskrit (Sample)
bulletRK  Merotic (Hieroglyphics, Demotic and Transscript Sample)
bulletRK Ugaritic (Cuneiform and Transscript Sample)
bulletRK Persian Cuneiform (Sample)

All the fonts are in the Windows TTF format and you can use a windows-based text editor (WordPad, Write, MS Word, WordPerfect etc.). For further information about the language or the font, click on the appropriate link for info and samples.

 

RK Merotic (Hieroglyphic & Demotic):

The inhabitants of imperial Meroe (in the lands of Ethiopia) were the first people to use a literal script. The signs for this script were taken from the Egyptians Hieroglyphics (23 instead of  22 which the Greeks borrowed). They used two different scripts: Hieroglyphics and Demotic

RK Merotic Table of Signs

NOTE: With this font you do not get a font to write   Egyptian Hieroglyphics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RK Merotic Table of Signs by R. Kainhofer:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Disclaimer: We do not hold any responsibility or creative control over the contents of the web  sites and documents referenced by our links. They solely express the opinions of their respective authors and not Ugenie PCS. Items and information are provided as links because they appear to have relevant content to topics presented on our web site(s).  Ugenie PCS does not continually verify the truthfulness or locations of their contents.  Ugenie PCS does not endorse, recommend, or guarantee any particular software.
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