Geʾez Manuscript Zemen
1 Style
Regular
Glyphs
Full Ethiopic Unicode ranges used for Amharic: main block (U+1200–U+137F) and Ethiopic supplement (U+1380–U+139F). Each cell is one code point; hover or long-press for the hex value. Glyphs missing from this font file may show a fallback box.
Ethiopic · U+1200–U+137F · 384 characters
Ethiopic supplement · U+1380–U+139F · 32 characters
Latin sample (A–Z, a–z, 0–9)
Judgment free zone
If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.
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body { font-family: "Geʾez Manuscript Zemen", system-ui, sans-serif }Details
- Family name
- Geʾez Manuscript Zemen
- Designer
- Victor Gaultney and Lorna Evans
- Category
- —
- Subfamily
- Regular
- Glyph count
- 4107
- Version
- Version 1.200;September 11, 2023;FontCreator 14.0.0.2901 64-bit
- Release date
- Feb 12, 2022
- License
- SIL Open Font License
About
Ethiopic script font designed in a calligraphic style. The Geʾez Manuscript Zemen Regular typeface is derived directly from the Abyssinica SIL typeface. Additoins are made for writing elements found in manuscirpts but not available in a current Unicode standard.
Direct files
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