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Aegyptus.otf
Aegyptus Font
Author's note
Aegyptus by George Douros of Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts is a free high-contrast serif font with a distinctly classical bearing. Tall capitals combine fine hairlines with broad, gently swelling strokes and crisp, tapered serifs. The lowercase forms are more fluid and inclined, with long curves and pointed endings that lend the family an elegant manuscript note.
Classical engravings make an apt visual companion. Its tapered strokes and sweeping curves suit museum publishing, historical book covers, exhibition posters, and refined packaging, where lettering can echo etched lines and borders.
Classical engravings make an apt visual companion. Its tapered strokes and sweeping curves suit museum publishing, historical book covers, exhibition posters, and refined packaging, where lettering can echo etched lines and borders.
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Basic font information
Copyright notice
Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts; George Douros; 2010
Font family
Aegyptus
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Aegyptus
Full font name
Aegyptus
Name table version
Version 3.11
Postscript font name
Aegyptus
Trademark notice
Aegyptus is not a merchandise.
Manufacturer name
Free
Designer
Description
Ars longa, vita brevis; this is the final version of Aegyptus. The font encodes some 7100 Egyptian Hieroglyphs, all with a graphical representation. The main sources of glyphs are Hieroglyphica PIREI I² and the work of Alan Gardiner. Egyptian Hieroglyphs are allocated in the Supplementary Private Use Plane 15, for the lack of a standard. The font also covers Basic Latin, Egyptian Transliteration characters, Meroitic, some Punctuation and other Symbols and the Gardiner set of Egyptian Hieroglyphs supported by The Unicode Standard 5.2
Extended font information
Platforms supported
PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
MicrosoftUnicode full repertoire
Font details
Created2010-01-15
Revision3
Glyph count7446
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding for permanent installation
Family classModern serifs
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Width typeNormal
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureItalic
StyleOblique, italic
Stroke weightBook, text, regular, etc.
PitchNot monospaced
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