The Glyph Basic font set contains about 900 signs, corresponding roughly to Gardiner's Grammar "Sign List". It was designed on the lead font of the French Institute in Cairo (IFAO).
"Glyph Basic" is freeware but NOT public domain. Utrecht University, the IFAO and the Université de Paris-Sorbonne hold all the rights to the font. You may use the font for any publication purpose, but you may NOT modify it in any way (including changing the ASCII code of characters), and you may not build another font based on it.
You are free to distribute this package, as soon as you include this file.
If you plan to typeset hieroglyphics, you should check out
- MacScribe, the hieroglyphic text processor for the Macintosh
- The Glyph ExtLib font, which contains 4700 signs.
Both are commercial software.
A demo version of both is available on the net.
For more information, or for purchases, contact:
Centre for Computer-aided Egyptological Research
Faculty of Theology
Utrecht University
Trans 2
Heidelberglaan 2
3584 CS Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel: +31-30-531982
Fax: +31-30-540413
e-mail: vdplas@cc.ruu.nl
The author can be reached by e-mail at
aubourg@physics.berkeley.edu until the end of July 1994
