Beautiful Hieroglyphs

Replace wikihiero images with beautiful alternatives.

What is Beautiful Hieroglyphs?

Beautiful Hieroglyphs is a Chrome extension that replaces wikihiero images with higher quality alternatives. It utilizes fonts based on tuxscribe glyphs and the New Gardiner font to provide a historically accurate and visually appealing rendering of Ancient Egyptian writing. The extension's images are packaged within the extension itself, minimizing network overhead. Future releases will address remaining edge cases.

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By: Beautiful Hieroglyphs

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Users: 42

Rating: 5.00 (2)

Version: 0.4.1 (Last updated: 2024-02-11)

Creation date: 2023-02-04

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

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Size: 1.52M

Email: be*****@gmail.com

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Replaces images that look like they are from wikihiero usage with higher quality alternatives.

Fonts provided are based on the tuxscribe glyphs found here: https://www.qsl.net/5/5b4az/, with some colour correction to better match historical usage, as well as the New Gardiner font found here: https://mjn.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/egyptian/fonts/newgardiner.html

The images are packaged inside of the extension, so there are no additional network overheads from using it.

63 of the images are not currently replaced, These remaining edge cases will be fixed in future releases.

This extension is based on work by Neoklis Kyriazis and modifies the results of work by Guillaume Blanchard, both of whom are thanked for their contributions towards the beautiful rendition of Ancient Egyptian writing.

User reviews

Well, I made it so of course I think its cool. Works very well, only a few missing glyphs which appear as badly as they did before... otherwise a great improvement over the shoddy work used for wikihiero.