A font for ancient scripts in the greater Aegean vicinity
Description
Aegean covers the following scripts and symbols supported by The Unicode Standard 5.1: Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, Greek Extended, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Linear B Syllabary, Linear B Ideograms, Aegean Numbers, Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols, Phaistos Disc, Lycian, Carian, Old Italic, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Cypriot Syllabary, Phoenician, Lydian, Archaic Greek Musical Notation.
Scripts and symbols as yet unsupported by Unicode, are allocated in the Supplementary Private Use Plane 15. Character and glyph repertoire in such cases follows major academic references as well as existing proposals. These scripts and symbols are: Linear A, Cretan Hieroglyphs, Cypro‐Minoan, Ancient Greek Alphabets (Φοινικικά, Αρχαϊκά 8ου αιώνα, αριστερόστροφα αρχαϊκά 7ου αιώνα, δεξιόστροφα αρχαϊκά 7ου αιώνα, Θήρα – Κρήτη, Ἀττική, Μίλητος, Ἰωνία, Κόρινθος, Ἄργος, Βοιωτία – Χαλκίδα, Λακωνία, Ἀρκαδία, Εὔβοια, Νεότερα), Phrygian, Old Italic Alphabets (Cumaean, Archaic Etruscan, Neo Etruscan, Ancient Latin, Lugano, Faliscan, Marsiliana, Messapic, Middle Adriatic – South Picene, North Picene, Oscan, Umbrian), the Arkalochori Axe and Anatolian Hieroglyphs. There are, finally, many variant and extra glyphs in the Private Use Areas.
It was created by George Douros
Characteristics
| Homepage | Format & features | License | Review reference | Koji page | pkgdb page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts | OFL | Free to use, modify and distribute | 529323 | ⑤ | ⑥ |
Caveats
- It'd be mighty nice to convince the author to add his licensing info in the zip (as a detached txt file, in the pdf, in the font metadata)
- PDF is nice doc but needs to be compressed or even split in a -doc subpackage
Additional information
Needed to complete our Unicode coverage. Plus, the fonts are very nice.
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