Inga Stone Signs by Galdino Otten is a free ancient-inspired dingbat font built from rough pictographic symbols. Its blunt, uneven forms resemble marks cut or painted onto stone, with human, animal, and abstract motifs reduced to compact silhouettes.
Archaeology, folklore, and early civilizations are natural subjects for museum graphics, educational publishing, and historical games. The symbols can also become part of map illustrations or artifact-themed packaging, where they function as images rather than ordinary lettering.
These icons were designed based on those symbols entrenched in low relief by pre-Columbian inhabitants in a huge stone in the city of Inga, state of Paraíba, Brazil.
Extended font information
Platforms supported
PlatformEncoding
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
Font details
Created2010-02-15
Revision1
Glyph count61
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding for editing allowed
Family classSymbolic
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals