Hieroglyphic Letterpress Font in Hamilton Cabinet

For the publication of his Egyptian Grammar in 1927, Sir Alan H. Gardiner wanted to develop a new hieroglyphic letterpress font as he was not content with the fonts available at the time. He enlisted the help of artists Norma and Nina de Garis Davies to design the font and commissioned Oxford University Press to cut the matrices and cast the type. A copy of this font now resides on display in the Research Archives of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, where it had been used from the 1930s up to the late 1970s by the University of Chicago Press for printing volumes that required a hieroglyphic font. All of those volumes bearing the imprint of the Oriental Institute are today available for free download at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures' website.