Credits & Usage Rights
Every asset in KEMET, where it comes from, and under what licence.
Design and development
This website was built by developer Shahd Elbary
KEMET does not yet include photographs of museum objects. Images will be added only with clear permission from the holding institutions or under an open licence.
| Asset | Origin | Licence | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|
IBM Plex Sans Arabic Primary text face. | Fontsource npm package (self-hosted, bundled at build time) — IBM Corp. IBM Plex Sans Arabic, SIL Open Font License 1.1. fonts.google.com | OFL-1.1 | 2026-11-13 |
Amiri Limited Arabic display headings. | Fontsource npm package (self-hosted, bundled at build time) — Khaled Hosny Amiri, SIL Open Font License 1.1. fonts.google.com | OFL-1.1 | 2026-11-13 |
Cormorant Garamond Limited Latin display headings. | Fontsource npm package (self-hosted, bundled at build time) — Christian Thalmann Cormorant Garamond, SIL Open Font License 1.1. fonts.google.com | OFL-1.1 | 2026-11-13 |
Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs Rendering hieroglyphs as Unicode text. | Fontsource npm package (self-hosted, bundled at build time) — Google Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs, SIL Open Font License 1.1. fonts.google.com | OFL-1.1 | 2026-11-13 |
KEMET procedural soundscape Ambience and interface sounds. | Generated in the browser with the Web Audio API (src/lib/audio) — KEMET project Original, programmatically generated sound; it does not claim to reproduce ancient Egyptian music. | original | 2026-11-13 |
Browser speech synthesis Reading narration aloud on request. | The visitor’s own browser / operating system (Web Speech API) — Visitor’s device Synthetic voice from the visitor’s device, used until licensed human narration is recorded. | original | 2026-11-13 |
Illustrative artifact models Virtual museum and artifact viewer. | Built from geometric primitives in code (src/components/museum) — KEMET project Approximate illustrative models — not 3D scans of the original objects. | original | 2026-11-13 |
Journey scene illustrations Journey scenes and the homepage. | Hand-authored SVG in code (src/components/storytelling/SceneStage.tsx) — KEMET project Original illustrations and artistic reconstructions, labelled in every scene. | original | 2026-11-13 |
Simplified map of Egypt The interactive historical map. | Hand-simplified outline drawn from approximate coordinates (src/components/maps) — KEMET project Approximate outline of present-day borders and the Nile, for educational orientation only. | original | 2026-11-13 |