[Aztlan] Free Mayan Day and Month fonts

Michael Finley mjfinley at shaw.ca
Thu Jun 12 01:19:51 CDT 2008


ECOLING at aol.com wrote:

>A set of five fonts for Mayan day glyphs, month glyphs, and numbers
>which were made available some years ago from the combined work
>of Linda Schele, Nora England, and myself is now updated to work with
>more modern printers. . . .  
>Please note that these fonts DO NOT enable you to type full long counts.   
>They do not contain glyphs for Baktun, K'atun, Tuun, Winal, or K'in, 
>nor any ISIG glyphs.
>So those interested in typing birthdates will not find them adequate.
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For those interested, there is a freeware font, called "Mayan," composed 
by Karen Helene Jensen, that includes the "head" forms of the period 
glyphs from baktun to k'in, though you do have to search for them in 
this rather eclectic font.  With this and the ecoling  fonts,  you can 
create whole long count dates if the spirit moves you!  The font can be 
found on  my web site near the bottom of

http://members.shaw.ca/mjfinley/Maya.htm

Michael Finley


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