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Alpha font

Type · February 27th, 2006 ·

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Most amazing font so far, the Alphabetum font, for ancient languages. It is now possible to compose text with languages that disappeared 5000 years ago. I have to say all my respect for such a nice and usefull work! Thanks from university researchers that had to redraw all archeologic inscriptions found on sites. Now those texts can circulates.

Juan-Jos? Marcos’ Alphabetum font is a large Unicode font covering more than 4000 characters in the most recent version. Although the full font is not free, costing ?15 for individual registration, a demo version of the font lacking about 500 glyphs present in the full font can be downloaded for free. Coverage is provided for classic and medieval Latin, ancient Greek, Old Italic-Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Faliscan, Messapic, Picene-Gothic, Iberian, Celtiberian, old and middle English, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Runic, Ogham, Ugaritic, Old Persian cuneiform, Phoenician, Linear B, Cypriot, Aegean numbers, old and medieval Nordic.

http://guindo.cnice.mecd.es/~jmag0042/alphaeng.html

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  • 1. Femke

    Feb 27, 2006 at 7:06 pm

    Not only cross language borders (like Gentium), but travel in time as well!

    Could you include a link to the license on Alphabetum? On Marcos’ website I cannot find a mention that the sources are open and/or whether you could re-distribute this font.

    Thanks!