Egyptological Unicode Fonts

Egyptological Transliteration

Recommended fonts

FontStylesDownloadLicenseComment
Leiden Unified Transliteration-ready
New Athena Unicode (> v5.007)Regular, (italic), boldapagreekkeys.orgOFLFalse italics
Junicode Two BetaRegular, italic, boldgithub.comOFL 
Charis SIL, Charis SIL CompactRegular, italic, boldsoftware.sil.orgOFLnew to v6.2 (Feb 2023): Egyptological Yod (ꞽ/Ꞽ U+A7BD/C)
Gentium Plus, Gentium Plus CompactRegular, italic, boldsoftware.sil.org
Andika, Andika CompactRegular, italic, bold (sans-serif)software.sil.org
Not LUT-ready
BBAW SchoellRegulargithub.comOFLRegular only; used in BTS/TLA;
Egyptological Yod (ꞽ/Ꞽ U+A7BD/C) missing;
LUT-ready successor TLA Ancient Egyptian under development

Egyptological transliteration keyboards

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

Unicode codepoints

Special characters

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  

Special signs

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

Overview in PDF format.

Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Recommended fonts

Font / DownloadBasic set v5.2Format 
controls  v15		Expanded 
set v16		Comment
UniHieroglyphica
corp.unicode.org/~suignard/		✓✕✓OFL, see here.
Egyptian Text 
github.com/microsoft/font-tools/		✓✓✕OFL.
New Gardiner 
github.com/nederhof/newgardiner		✓✕(✓) *)OFL. Use current corrected v2.09 (or later).
*) Expanded set distributed over two fonts.
Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs 
fonts.google.com 		✓✕✕OFL. Use current corrected v2.002 (or later).
JSesh font 
jsesh.qenherkhopeshef.org		✓✕✕Few malformed glyphs (v1.0), see https://osf.io/fyjtv.
Font designer is informed. Watch out for font updates.
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/HieroglyphsEverywhere/		✓✕✕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.

Egyptological hieroglyphic keyboards

  • Keyman keyboard Hieroglyphic by Christian Casey from keyman.com
[Text: D.A. Werning]