Author's note

Early Phoenician by Jack Kilmon is a free ancient dingbats font built from sharp wedges, hooked strokes, and brush-like curves that feel lifted from an early inscription. The marks look spare and hand-cut rather than ornamental, with a lively mix of angled points and sweeping turns that gives the set a raw archaeological mood.

It fits naturally in museum graphics, historical book covers, classroom handouts, themed posters, and game title cards where a free font can suggest the ancient Mediterranean without slipping into polished classicism. Because the symbols read as signs more than ordinary lettering, they also work well in short headers, decorative dividers, and emblem-like accents.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Created by Jack Kilmon
Font family
Early Phoenician
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 Early Phoenician
Full font name
Early Phoenician
Name table version
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 1/21/99
Postscript font name
EarlyPhoenician

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created1999-01-21
Revision1
Glyph count26
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding restricted (not allowed!)
Family classSymbolic
WeightSemi-light
WidthMedium (normal)
Width typeNormal
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
StyleUpright
Stroke weightBook, text, regular, etc.
PitchNot monospaced
Symbol setWindows 3.1 ANSI