Author's note

Elephantine Aramaic by Jack Kilmon is a free ancient-script dingbat font drawn from early Aramaic letterforms. The marks feel spare and weathered, with hooked curves, tapering strokes, and asymmetrical silhouettes that read more like inscribed signs than polished modern symbols.

That makes this free font a natural choice for museum graphics, archaeology book covers, historical fiction packaging, classroom handouts, and title cards that need an old Near Eastern voice. It also works well in short headings, emblem-like monograms, and drop-cap style accents, because the shapes carry a strong sense of age even when used one mark at a time.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Created by Jack Kilmon
Font family
Elephantine
Font subfamily
Aramaic
Unique subfamily identification
Elephantine Aramaic
Full font name
Elephantine Aramaic
Name table version
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 5/3/98
Postscript font name
ElephantineAramaic
Trademark notice
Jack Kilmon

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created1998-05-03
Revision1
Glyph count47
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding restricted (not allowed!)
Family classSymbolic
WeightBold
WidthMedium (normal)
Width typeNormal
Mac styleItalic
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureBold
StyleUpright
Stroke weightExtra Black
PitchNot monospaced
Symbol setWindows 3.1 ANSI