Noto Sans Palmyrene
Google Fonts · Google · 2014
A scholarly Noto sans-serif providing Unicode support for Palmyrene, an ancient Semitic script from the historical city of Palmyra.
About
Noto Sans Palmyrene serves epigraphers, historians, and classicists working with inscriptions from one of antiquity's great trading cities. The script was used for funerary, civic, and religious texts and became extinct following the city's decline, making reliable digital fonts essential for ongoing academic study. Its application is almost entirely specialist — appearing in journal articles, digital humanities projects, and museum catalogues.
Classification
Supports Palmyrene, an ancient Aramaic-derived script used in the city of Palmyra in modern-day Syria from approximately the 1st century BCE to the 3rd century CE. The Noto design renders the script with archaeological fidelity, prioritising correctness over ornamentation.