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wall-mark

A Proto-Sinaitic Font




Introduction

WallMark traces the ancient impulse to carve meaning into stone. Based on Proto-Sinaitic script from around 1800 BCE, it captures that pivotal moment when humans first abstracted pictographs into letters. When miners in the Sinai Peninsula began scratching symbols that would echo through millennia.

This was potentially one of humanity's leaps from depicting the world to encoding language. From drawing what we see to marking what we say. Each glyph a revolution carved in wall, transforming pictures into an alphabet that would father Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin, and the letters you're reading now.

Glyphs

The 27 glyphs are mapped to underlying associated Egyptian Heiroglyph characters:

𓃾 𓉐 𓉔 𓌙 𓆟 𓀠 𓌉 𓐅 𓉗 𓎛 𓄤 𓂝 𓂧 𓍢
𓈖 𓆓 𓁹 𓂋 𓀁 𓂏 𓊋 𓇑 𓃻 𓁶 𓇴 𓌔 𓏴

Here is how they seem to map to Phoenician glyphs, according to the Wikipedia page:

hieroglyphs phoenician
𓃾 𐤀
𓉐 𐤁
𓉔 𐤁
𓌙 𐤂
𓆟 𐤃
𓀠 𐤄
𓌉 𐤅
𓐅 𐤆
𓉗 𐤇
𓎛 𐤇
𓄤 𐤈
𓂝 𐤉
𓂧 𐤊
𓍢 𐤋
𓈖 𐤌
𓆓 𐤍
𓁹 𐤏
𓂋 𐤐
𓀁 𐤄
𓂏 𐤐
𓊋 𐤐
𓇑 𐤑
𓃻 𐤒
𓁶 𐤓
𓇴 𐤔
𓌔 𐤔
𓏴 𐤕

Fonts are in the ./base folder.

License

OFL

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