Egyptological Unicode Fonts

Egyptological Transliteration

Recommended fonts

FontLicenseStyles Comment
New Athena Unicode (> v5.007)
apagreekkeys.org		OFLRegular, (italic), bold✓False italics
Junicode Two Beta
github.com		OFLRegular, italic, bold✓ 
Charis SIL, Charis SIL Compact
software.sil.org		OFLRegular, italic, bold✓v6.2 (Feb 2023) and later
Gentium Plus, Gentium Plus Compact
software.sil.org		Regular, italic, bold✓
Andika, Andika Compact
software.sil.org		Regular, italic, bold (sans-serif)✓
BBAW Schoell
github.com		OFLRegular only✕ (Egyptological Yod 
ꞽ/Ꞽ U+A7BD/C missing)		Used in BTS/TLA
 

Egyptological transliteration keyboards

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

Unicode codepoints

Special characters

MinusculeUnicode codepointMajusculeUnicode codepointComment
ꜣU+A723ꜢU+A722 
ꞽU+A7BDꞼU+A7BCnew: Unicode v12 (2019)
i̯'i'&U+032F   
ïU+00EF   
ꜥU+A725ꜤU+A724 
u̯'u'&U+032F   
ʾU+02BE   
ḥU+1E25ḤU+1E24 
ḫU+1E2BḪU+1E2A 
ẖU+1E96H̱'H'&U+0331 
h̭'h'&U+032DH̭'H'&U+032D 
śU+015BŚU+015A 
šU+0161ŠU+0160 
ḳU+1E33ḲU+1E32 
ṱU+1E71ṰU+1E70 
ṯU+1E6FṮU+1E6E 
čU+010DČU+010C 
ṭU+1E6DṬU+1E6C 
ḏU+1E0FḎU+1E0E 
č̣U+010D&U+0323Č̣U+010C&U+0323 

Special signs

⸗U+2E17   
⸢U+2E22⸣U+2E23 
⟨U+27E8⟩U+27E9Unicode 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
suignard.com/Ptolemaic/		✓✕✓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]