Nyala
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.
The specimen page demonstrates how the family reads in continuous text. Use it to judge spacing, rhythm, and personality before you embed the font in production.
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Details
- Family name
- Nyala
- Designer
- John Hudson, Geraldine Wade, John Hudson and Geraldine Wade
- Category
- —
- Subfamily
- Regular
- Glyph count
- 1028
- Version
- Version 5.00
- Release date
- Aug 13, 2005
- License
- www.microsoft.com
About
The Nyala typeface is named for the mountain nyala (tragelaphus buxtoni) a species of great African antelope native to the highlands of Ethiopia. The Ethiopic characters were designed by John Hudson, based on initial drawings by Geraldine Wade. The Latin characters were designed by John Hudson, and harmonise with the Ethiopic to facilitate the typesetting of texts including un-transliterated foreign names, technical terms, etc.
Embed (CSS API)
Use this in your HTML. It returns @font-face rules and can point at your CDN.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.geezarchive.com/css2?family=Nyala&display=swap" />
body { font-family: "Nyala", system-ui, sans-serif }Direct files
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