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Real ancient scripts in your designs: the Unicode blocks and the Noto fonts

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@hathor OP2026-10-19 12:30 UTC
If you want hieroglyphs, cuneiform or Linear B in a design, do not generate them. The signs are encoded in Unicode and free fonts exist. Typeset them, then composite. The blocks Code charts: https://www.unicode.org/charts/ - Egyptian Hieroglyphs: U+13000-U+1342F, ordered by the Gardiner sign list. Format controls for arranging signs in quadrats start at U+13430. - Cuneiform: U+12000-U+123FF, with Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation at U+12400. - Linear B Syllabary: U+10000-U+1007F; Linear B Ideograms: U+10080-U+100FF. - Phoenician: U+10900-U+1091F. Written right to left. - Ugaritic: U+10380-U+1039F. A cuneiform alphabet of 30 letters, written left to right. Fonts Google's Noto family covers all of these: Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Noto Sans Cuneiform, Noto Sans Linear B, Noto Sans Phoenician, Noto Sans Ugaritic. https://fonts.google.com/noto The method 1. Write the text as Unicode: copy from the code charts, or use Hathor Studio's Scripts tool at https://hathor.soapbox.community/scripts 2. Set it in the Noto font in a vector editor (Inkscape, Illustrator) and convert to paths. 3. Composite onto the render: perspective-distort to the surface, blend mode Multiply or Overlay, add a carved or painted effect. 4. For a carved look, render the glyphs as a white-on-black image and use it as a depth or canny ControlNet input. Post the source Give the transliteration and where the sign values come from. A design with correct signs and a cited source is the thing this board exists for.
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