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 There are a number of fonts which can be downloaded from the web in order to type in hieroglyphs or transliteration scripts. There are free and commercial versions. Only the free versions are listed here.
Terry Donnelly’s Fonts Page
http://wesheb.tdonnelly.org/ecomp.html
Quoted from Terry’s page: “The ancient Egyptians employed three different styles of writing: hieroglyphic (the familiar "picture" writing), hieratic (a very stylized version of hieroglyphics, and what the professional scribes actually used for day-to-day writing), and demotic (even more stylized; a later development of hieratic). This Website contains only fonts for hieroglyphics. NOTE: None of these fonts can be said to be "typesetting" fonts, since none let you stack glyphs.
Transliteration (21K)
This is a roman-letter transliteration font for transcribing glyphs (this font is required for my FlashGlyph program, and is included in its distribution file). Distributed by the CCER (see below).
Hieroglyphic (403K)
A set of 4 fonts covering the entire Gardiner signlist. A very pictorial set of glyphs; almost too pictorial. They are beautifully detailed, but don't look much like actual Egyptian characters. They look more like an Art Deco draftsman put them together. Also, on my monitor screen, or at small point sizes on my printer, a lot of detail is lost. Also distributed by the CCER.
SP Egyptian (30K)
This font simulates brush-drawn glyphs, with variable width lines and not much detail. Decorative, but sometimes hard to distinguish. Consists only of the monoliteral "alphabetic" glyphs.
HieroGlyph Full (67K)
I developed this font for my FlashGlyph program. It has a good assortment of mono-, bi- and triliterals and determinatives. I've tried to give this font the somewhat "cartoony" look of the standard glyph fonts used in many printed works on Egyptian (using my copy of E.A. Wallis Budge for reference). (You can probably find the originals of these typesetting fonts on the Web somewhere, but I couldn't when I went looking, and what I found was inconsistent in appearance and incomplete in its glyph selection, so I put together my own.)
Character chart (18K) for Hieroglyph Full (this chart is included in the font download file).”
GlyphBasic
A free-of-charge hieroglyphic True-Type font set for Windows and Mac, in four files. 900 characters are included. This can be downloaded from a number of sites:
Gardiner Sign Font
A free-of-charge hieroglyphic True-Type font for Windows, in five files.
MacTrans
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/egyptian.html
A transliteration font for Mac users, from the Yamada Language Centre’s Hieroglyphic Fonts page..
Transliteration Script for Windows and Mac
http://www.ccer.nl/ (on the Egyptological Resources page)
The Egyptian transliteration font used by Glyph for Windows and Mac
Manuel de Codage
http://www.catchpenny.org/codage/
Manuel de Codage is essential for an understanding for the ability to discuss translation of hieroglyphs via email/lists without the use of special fonts. It uses the standard keyboard characters to build a form of translation which is now in very common usage on lists like AEL. This page contains an introduction to it and explains how it works. You may also need Gardiner’s sign list.
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