Phoenician and Ugaritic: two alphabets, two directions, one design pitfall

Both scripts are early alphabets from the Levant, and both are encoded in Unicode with Noto fonts. They are often confused in designs, and they run in opposite directions. Phoenician - 22 letters, consonants only. - Written right to left. - Unicode block U+10900-U+1091F; font Noto Sans Phoenician. - The ancestor of the Greek, and through it the Latin, alphabet; also of Aramaic and so of the Hebrew square script. Ugaritic - 30 letters, written as wedge-shaped signs pressed into clay with a stylus: a cuneiform alphabet, from the city of Ugarit on the Syrian coast (Late Bronze Age). - Written left to right. - Unicode block U+10380-U+1039F; font Noto Sans Ugaritic. - Abecedary tablets found at Ugarit preserve its letter order. The design pitfall: direction Most design tools will display right-to-left scripts correctly only if the text is marked as right-to-left. When you convert Phoenician to paths, check the letter order did not flip. Read the first letter against your source before exporting. Method 1. Write the text in transliteration first. 2. Map each consonant to its code point from the chart: https://www.unicode.org/charts/ 3. Set in the Noto font with the right direction. 4. Convert to paths; composite onto the render with a stone, bronze or clay treatment. Source the text If you are quoting an actual inscription, name it and the edition you took it from. The scripture shelves give a cite-as line for each passage: https://hierophant.soapbox.community/shelves