Custom Fonts for Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Creating custom fonts directly from manuscript images for use in ancient Near Eastern studies — covering image processing, font creation with Birdfont, and kerning with Microsoft Volt.

December 2017 · Bronson Brown-deVost

DSS 4Q51 Font

Paleographic font reproducing the scribal hand of 4Q51 (4QSam-a).

January 2017 · Bronson Brown-deVost

Qataban Font

Font for Old South Arabian (Qatabanian) script.

January 2009 · Bronson Brown-deVost

Sassanid Font

Font for Sassanid-era inscriptional script.

January 2009 · Bronson Brown-deVost

Ugaritic Font

Font for the Ugaritic cuneiform alphabet.

January 2008 · Bronson Brown-deVost

Babylonian Pointing Font

Hebrew font with Babylonian (supralinear) vowel pointing.

January 2006 · Bronson Brown-deVost