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4 August 2021

Can Egyptian Hieroglyphs be Handled as Text?

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When the exact placement of Egyptian hieroglyphs is irrelevant and only single hieroglyphs need to be displayed (for instance in a sentence such as: “the phonetic value of 𓅓 as a ‘uniliteral sign’ is /m/”), the free font Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs font Aegyptus Bold should be used and can be obtained here(version 6.17 from 2017; this is the last version of this font that can be used freely. As of versions from 2018, the creator George Douros started to ask huge sums of money for obtaining a commercial license for using his ancient scripts fonts). Make sure to use the bold weight and not the regular one: the latter font is too light for usage in 'Brill' typeface context.

Font sizes

• Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs 10 Aegyptus Bold 11 pt ~ Brill 11 ptNoto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs 9
• Aegyptus Bold 10 pt ~ Brill 10 pt
• Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs 8 Aegyptus Bold 9 pt ~ Brill 9 pt