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Typing alchemical symbols - Adam McLean - 12-22-2022
Paul Ferguson has created a guide to typing alchemical and other symbols into a text.
https://www.academia.edu/40286832/HOW_TO_TYPE_ALCHEMICAL_SYMBOLS_version_2_with_some_additions
RE: Typing alchemical symbols - Adam McLean - 12-22-2022
You can see the glyphs in the Esoterik font in this pdf.
Esoterik-1a5e.pdf (Size: 811.84 KB / Downloads: 203)
RE: Typing alchemical symbols - Paul Ferguson - 12-22-2022
Actually it’s a bit dated and needs an upgrade. I’ll get around to it eventually.
The free font Symbola has alchemical characters:
https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/symbola
RE: Typing alchemical symbols - Adam McLean - 12-23-2022
Many of the glyphs in the Esoterik font seem to be in the style of Rudolf Koch's 'Book of Signs'.
RE: Typing alchemical symbols - Paul Ferguson - 12-27-2022
(12-23-2022, 04:25 PM)Adam McLean Wrote: Many of the glyphs in the Esoterik font seem to be in the style of Rudolf Koch's 'Book of Signs'.
If you want/need to create your own fonts/characters then the open-source FontForge is available:
For Windows: https://fontforge.org/en-US/downloads/windows-dl/
For Linux: https://fontforge.org/en-US/
RE: Typing alchemical symbols - Paul Ferguson - 01-22-2023
There's an on-line tool here for creating alchemical symbols with colour effects etc.:
https://fontmeme.com/alchemical-symbols/