Author's note

Egypt font by Lime is a free ancient dingbats font. Its pictorial forms echo carved temple ornament-upright, symmetrical, and finely patterned-so even a single symbol brings in that dry, stone-cut, archaeological mood without needing extra illustration.

Using Egypt works beautifully for museum flyers, history class handouts, themed invitations, scrapbook pages, educational posters, game props, and book section breaks. This free font shines best at larger sizes where the details stay crisp, and it pairs nicely with a simple serif or neutral sans so the ornaments can hold the spotlight.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
©Lime 2000
Font family
Egypt
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 Egypt
Full font name
Egypt
Name table version
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 2000-08-12
Postscript font name
Egypt

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2000-08-12
Revision1
Glyph count16
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding restricted (not allowed!)
Family classSymbolic
WeightMedium (normal)
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