Jack's Scribal and Epigraphic Fonts
These are font sets that I have constructed myself. They are designed for the classroom or for publications where original 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 you find 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 something to:
Jack Kilmon, 16800 Sugarpine Dr. #C18, Houston, Texas 77090
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
Moabite/Mesha Stele Epigraphic
Lachish Ostraca Cursive Palaeohebrew
Elephantine Papyrus Cursive
Jack's Early Aramaic (10th c. BCE)
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
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 individual characters. Sorry about this but if you want to duplicate scribal hands in a word processor, you have to to some "scribing."
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 the MAC. I fully admit that I'll probably learn every Chinese dialect before I understand a MAC.
Latin Epigraphic
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
Carolingian Minuscule. 8th to 12th century
Insular Minuscule 6th century onward
Another reminder. Remember that these are SCRIBAL fonts. Ancient scribes did not have word processors. 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/Character spacing 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 and time.
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
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. See the instructions with other scribal fonts on how to use them
Jack's Etruscan
Fonts from the Net
Coptic Fonts
Greek Fonts
Hebrew Fonts
Heiroglyphic
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Sanskrit (an R. Kainhofer Font)
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Demotic (an R. Kainhofer Font)
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