Egyptological Unicode Fonts

Egyptological Transliteration

Font	Styles	Download	License	Comment
Leiden Unified Transliteration-ready
*New Athena Unicode* (> v5.007)	Regular, (italic), bold	apagreekkeys.org	OFL	False italics
*Junicode Two Beta*	Regular, italic, bold	github.com	OFL
Charis SIL, Charis SIL Compact	Regular, italic, bold	software.sil.org	OFL	new to v6.2 (Feb 2023): Egyptological Yod (ꞽ/Ꞽ U+A7BD/C)
Gentium Plus, Gentium Plus Compact	Regular, italic, bold	software.sil.org
Andika, Andika Compact	Regular, italic, bold (sans-serif)	software.sil.org
*Not LUT-ready*
BBAW Schoell	Regular	github.com	OFL	Regular only; used in BTS/TLA; Egyptological Yod (ꞽ/Ꞽ U+A7BD/C) missing; LUT-ready successor TLA Ancient Egyptian under development

For information on how to use Unicode transliteration on the keyboard, see here.

Minuscule	Unicode codepoint	Majuscule	Unicode codepoint	Comment
ꜣ	U+A723	Ꜣ	U+A722
ꞽ	U+A7BD	Ꞽ	U+A7BC	new: Unicode v12 (2019)
i͗	'i'&U+0357	I͗	'I'&U+0357	Legacy workaround
i̯	'i'&U+032F
ï	U+00EF
ꜥ	U+A725	Ꜥ	U+A724
u̯	'u'&U+032F
ʾ	U+02BE
ḥ	U+1E25	Ḥ	U+1E24
ḫ	U+1E2B	Ḫ	U+1E2A
ẖ	U+1E96	H̱	'H'&U+0331
h̭	'h'&U+032D	H̭	'H'&U+032D
ś	U+015B	Ś	U+015A
š	U+0161	Š	U+0160
ḳ	U+1E33	Ḳ	U+1E32
ṱ	U+1E71	Ṱ	U+1E70
ṯ	U+1E6F	Ṯ	U+1E6E
č	U+010D	Č	U+010C
ṭ	U+1E6D	Ṭ	U+1E6C
ḏ	U+1E0F	Ḏ	U+1E0E
č̣	U+010D&U+0323	Č̣	U+010C&U+0323

⸗	U+2E17
⸢	U+2E22	⸣	U+2E23
⟨	U+27E8	⟩	U+27E9	Unicode recommendation for pointing angle brackets

Overview in PDF format.

Font	Download	Comment
*New Gardiner*	mjn.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk
*JSesh font*	jsesh.qenherkhopeshef.org	Few malformed glyphs (v1.0), see https://osf.io/fyjtv. Font designer is informed. Watch out for font updates.
Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs	fonts.google.com	Many malformed glyphs (v2.0), see https://osf.io/9haqz. Font designers are informed. Watch out for the progress of that issue.
Segoe UI Historic	(comes with certain MS Office packages)	Few malformed glyphs (v1.03), see https://osf.io/s2ha4.
Aegyptus	dn-works.com	Some malformed glyphs (v5.03); not maintained anymore(?)
Aaron	github.com	Experimental; many malformed glyphs (v1.0), see https://osf.io/s2ha4. Font designer is aware. Watch out for font updates.

For mistaken forms in different fonts, see https://osf.io/z2xkv (general glyphs; = appedix in: https://www.unicode.org), https://osf.io/sr8e3 (beard shapes). Please, watch out for eventually corrected font versions.

[Text: D.A. Werning]