Typing alchemical symbols

[Adam McLean]

Paul Ferguson has created a guide to typing alchemical and other symbols into a text.


https://www.academia.edu/40286832/HOW_TO..._additions

[Adam McLean]

You can see the glyphs in the Esoterik font in this pdf.


  Esoterik-1a5e.pdf (Size: 811.84 KB / Downloads: 202)

[Paul Ferguson]

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

[Adam McLean]

Many of the glyphs in the Esoterik font seem to be in the style of Rudolf Koch's 'Book of Signs'.

[Paul Ferguson]

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/

[Paul Ferguson]

There's an on-line tool here for creating alchemical symbols with colour effects etc.:

https://fontmeme.com/alchemical-symbols/