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There are several goals of the Hieratic Font Project.

First is to make the study of cursive Egyptian script more attainable.

Second is to provide a scientific tool for script analysis and comparison.

Third is to generate a representative set of fonts to represent hieratic script in publications.

The fonts produced to date can already reproduce a wide range of handwriting styles.

There are 12 basic brush strokes and the same number of related turning traces, thus each sign can be reduced to a numeric code, that also serves to describe the most likely brush stroke sequence.

This illustration shows two versions of the same text.

The most recent publication is concerned with Late Egyptian Letters