Khemitic Hieratic
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Khemitic-Hieratic.ttf
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Basic font information
Copyright notice
© 2003 Daniel U. Thibault
Font family
Khemitic Hieratic
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Urhixidur:Khemitic Hieratic:Version 1.00
Full font name
Khemitic Hieratic
Name table version
Version 1.00 2003-nov-11
Postscript font name
KhemiticHieratic
Manufacturer name
Designer
Description
This font represents the main written script of my Ancient-Egypt-inspired fantasy world, Khemi.
The upper-case characters are the graven, angular version of the script; lower-case is the written, rounded version (this forces some odd mappings for the non-character symbols --see below).
The "e" and "é" (e acute) share the same glyph, as do the "ï" (dieresis i) and "y". There is no "q" or "w". There is no "u", but for convenience it is mapped to the "oo" glyph (French "ou"). The "c" stands for the "sh" phoneme. The nasal vowels "an", "in", "on" and "un" are mapped to circumflex a, i, o and u (â, î, ô, û). The phonemes "eu" and "ou" are mapped to "ë" and "ö" (dieresis e and o).
The angular exclamation and question marks are mapped to the inverted exclamation and question marks ("¡" and "¿"). The angular parentheses are mapped to the brackets ("[" and "]"). The angular comma and semi-colon are mapped to the single and double quotes, respectively ( ' and " ). Finally, there is an angular infinity symbol mapped to the integral.
Numbers:
Khemitic uses a Roman-like system with symbols for 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 and so on up to 50 000. Note that subtractive notation isn't used (so nine is written VIIII, not IX). The digits 0 through 4 hold the corresponding successive powers of 10 (1, 10, 100, 1000, 10 000) whilst the digits 5 through 9 hold the corresponding times five values (5, 50, 500, 5000, 50 000), in rounded script. For the angular script, the zero is unchanged, the digits 1..4 are mapped to superscript one through three and the fraction one quarter ( ¹ ² ³ ¼ ¾); the "times five" glyph is mapped to the fraction three-quarters (¾).
The upper-case characters are the graven, angular version of the script; lower-case is the written, rounded version (this forces some odd mappings for the non-character symbols --see below).
The "e" and "é" (e acute) share the same glyph, as do the "ï" (dieresis i) and "y". There is no "q" or "w". There is no "u", but for convenience it is mapped to the "oo" glyph (French "ou"). The "c" stands for the "sh" phoneme. The nasal vowels "an", "in", "on" and "un" are mapped to circumflex a, i, o and u (â, î, ô, û). The phonemes "eu" and "ou" are mapped to "ë" and "ö" (dieresis e and o).
The angular exclamation and question marks are mapped to the inverted exclamation and question marks ("¡" and "¿"). The angular parentheses are mapped to the brackets ("[" and "]"). The angular comma and semi-colon are mapped to the single and double quotes, respectively ( ' and " ). Finally, there is an angular infinity symbol mapped to the integral.
Numbers:
Khemitic uses a Roman-like system with symbols for 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 and so on up to 50 000. Note that subtractive notation isn't used (so nine is written VIIII, not IX). The digits 0 through 4 hold the corresponding successive powers of 10 (1, 10, 100, 1000, 10 000) whilst the digits 5 through 9 hold the corresponding times five values (5, 50, 500, 5000, 50 000), in rounded script. For the angular script, the zero is unchanged, the digits 1..4 are mapped to superscript one through three and the fraction one quarter ( ¹ ² ³ ¼ ¾); the "times five" glyph is mapped to the fraction three-quarters (¾).
Extended font information
Platforms supported
PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
Font details
Created2003-11-11
Revision1
Glyph count255
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding for permanent installation
Family classSymbolic
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionMixed directional glyphs
Pattern natureRegular
PitchNot monospaced