However, they’re also available in the Google Drive suite (on the desktop, not mobile phone apps, unfortunately), and I’m going to show you how to get to them.īeing able to get hieroglyphs into your document wherever you are is great. You can download all the Noto fonts for free to use on your computer. ‘Tofu’ is the name used for those little rectangular boxes you get on web pages when your browser doesn’t recognise a glyph, and Google’s on a mission to make them a thing of the past. It’s called Google Noto, the ‘Noto’ meaning ‘No more tofu’.

Google have had a project on the go for a few years, creating a suite of fonts that covers every known script and language in the world. As long as you have an internet connection, you can log into your Google account on a browser anywhere in the world and get to your documents.Īn added bonus for those working or studying within Egyptology, is that you can get hieroglyphs into your document without having to add fonts or software onto your computer. You should also be able to find lots of tutorials and videos online.)Īn obvious advantage to this is that you can take your work, your writing, your essays, your presentations around with you. If you need help, have a read of the Google support pages for accessing Google Drive and using Google Docs. (I’m not going to go through how to access Google Drive and Google Docs here. Where Microsoft has Word, Excel and Powerpoint, Google has Docs, Sheets and Slides.Īnyone with a Gmail account has a Google Drive (a cloud storage space), and access to Docs, Sheets and Slides, which you get to via your browser, or apps on your phone. Like Microsoft, Apple and OpenOffice, Google has its own suite of office software.

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