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FONTS FOR SCHOLARS, ACADEMICS, STUDENTS

Jack's Scribal and Epigraphic Fonts

These are font sets that I have constructed myself. They are designed for the classroom or for publications whereoriginal scribal or epigraphic script would be more desireable than transcriptions. As I continue to create new sets I will

post them here. These are Windows True Type fonts but I intend to regenerate them for the Mac as well. I hope youfind them useful.

These are free but if you would like to help defray the costs for the font-making program, you can send a little somethingto:

Jack Kilmon, 17643 Diamond Canyon Dr, San Antonio, Texas 78232

Just click on the font you wish and "save file" to download

A Brief Assay on the History of Writing and the Development of the Alphabet

Early Phoenician

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Moabite/Mesha Stele Epigraphic

Lachish Ostraca Cursive Palaeohebrew

Elephantine Papyrus Cursive

Jack's Early Aramaic (10th c. BCE)

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Nabataean Aramaic

Elephantine and Early Aramaic with Israel IBM order in the upper case. Thanks to Ricky Stein for the remapping.

Jack's Samaritan

Jack's Siloam Inscription

To see how to use this font, click HERE

Jack's Dead Sea Scroll Scribal

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Based on Great Isaiah Scroll

To see how to use this font, click HERE.

Jack's Habakkuk Scribal

Based on Pesher Habakkuk

To see how to use this font, click HERE

Jack's Meissner Papyrus Cursive

This font, also being a "scribal" hand, requires "tweaking" in the Format/ Font /Character Spacing utility for individualcharacters. Sorry about this but if you want to duplicate scribal hands in a word processor, you have to to some"scribing."

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Jack's Fonts for the MAC, including Israel IBM order in uppercase, thanks to Ricky Stein

Dead Sea Scroll Scribal

Early Aramaic

Elephantine

I really appreciate Rickey Stein, rickey456@aol.com, for remapping for the Israel IBM and for theMAC. I fully admit that I'll probably learn every Chinese dialect before I understand a MAC.

Latin Epigraphic

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Roman Grafitti coming soon Latin Epigraphic coming soon

Roman Rustica (Capitalis Rustica), Latin bookhand from 1st to 6th century

Latin Uncial, late 2nd to 6th century. Offical script of Church literature from the 3rd century.

Latin Half Uncial. 3rd to 9th century

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Carolingian Minuscule. 8th to 12th century

Insular Minuscule 6th century onward

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Another reminder. Remember that these are SCRIBAL fonts. Ancient scribes did not have wordprocessors. A word processor cannot duplicate the various scribal nuances such as the size of caps, long

descenders, etc. You MUST do some scribing with your word processor by using the Format/Font/Characterspacing utility to increase point sizes, bold if necessary, and lower or raise character positioning....letter by

letter. You cannot just type along and duplicate the style of an ancient manuscript. It takes a little work andtime.

Early Gothic 11th & 12th centuries

Gothic Textura Quadrata, popular scribal hand from the 13th to the 15th centuries

To see more of what you can do with this font, CLICK HERE

C. Sinaiticus Uncial Greek

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Early Greek Epigraphic

Greek Minuscule with Ligatures

I'm still working on script refinement, so a better version will be posted later. This has been a tough font to create. Seethe instructions with other scribal fonts on how to use them

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Jack's Etruscan

Fonts from the Net

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Coptic Fonts

Greek Fonts

Hebrew Fonts

Heiroglyphic

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Sanskrit (an R. Kainhofer Font)

Demotic (an R. Kainhofer Font)

Persian Cuneiform (An R. Kainofer Font)

Ugaritic (An R. Kainhofer Font)

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Visit Reinhold Kainhofer's RK Ancient Fonts site

Linear B

Old English

An excellent and extensive resource for other non-English fonts

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