Noto Sans Meroitic is an unmodulated (“sans serif”) design for texts in the historical Middle Eastern Meroitic Hieroglyphs and Cursive scripts.
Noto Sans Meroitic contains 133 glyphs, 2 OpenType features, and supports 129 characters from 2 Unicode blocks: Meroitic Hieroglyphs, Meroitic Cursive.
Meroitic Hieroglyphs is a historical Middle Eastern logo-syllabary, written vertically right-to-left. Was used in 300 BCE–600 CE in today’s Sudan by the Kush (Meroë) people for the Meroitic language. Derived from Egyptian Hieroglyphs, used alongside Meroitic Cursive, and later Coptic. Read more on ScriptSource, Unicode, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, r12a.
Meroitic Cursive is a historical Middle Eastern abugida, written right-to-left. Was used in 300 BCE–600 CE in today’s Sudan by the Kush (Meroë) people for the Meroitic language. Derived from Demotic Egyptian, used alongside Meroitic Hieroglyphs, and later Coptic. Needs software support for complex text layout (shaping). Read more on ScriptSource, Unicode, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, r12a.