Nyala - Ethiopic Font
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Nyala
| Version: | 5.01 |
| Family Name: | Nyala |
| Weight: | 400 |
| Glyphs: | 1028 |
| Fixed Pitch: | No |
| Symbol Encoded: | No |
| Embedded Bitmaps: | No |
| Creation Date: | 8/13/2005 |
| Modified Date: | 5/12/2009 |
| Unicode Ranges: | Basic Latin Latin-1 Supplement Latin Extended-A Latin Extended-B Spacing Modifier Letters Combining Diacritical Marks Latin Extended Additional General Punctuation Ethiopic |
| Code Pages: | 1252 Latin 1 1250 Latin 2: Eastern Europe 1254 Turkish 1257 Windows Baltic |
| Hinting: | 0-6 Smoothed 7+ Hinted and Smoothed |
Nyala is an Ethiopic font designed by John Hudson and Geraldine Wade. The Nyala font features Ethiopic harmonized with Latin characters for bilingual documents. The Nyala typeface is named for the Mountain Nyala, a native antelope found in the mountains of Ethiopia. The Ethiopic characters in the Nyala font were designed by John Hudson based on initial drawings by Geraldine Wade. The Latin characters in Nyala were designed by John Hudson to be in harmony with the Ethiopic characters. The Nyala font supports Ethiopic, Amharic, Tigrinya and Tigre, and also other modern tongues of Ethiopia and Eritrea including Ge'ez - the ancient scriptural language.
View Nyala Type Specimen (PDF)
SKU: NYA01-01-50-05
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