Sylfa
font | Sylfa |
category | Serif |
Font designer | John Hudson, W. Ross Mills, Geraldine Wade |
Client | Microsoft Corporation |
Creation | 1998 |
Sylfaen (from Welsh sylfaen "foundation") is a serif font for several writing systems, which was developed in 1998 by John Hudson, W. Ross Mills and Geraldine Wade for Microsoft.
In 1997 Microsoft commissioned a font for several writing systems. The finished font contains 3,842 characters and supports the Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian , Georgian and Ethiopian script. The design of the Georgian glyphs is unfinished because designer Anton Dumbadze was hit by a car and died before he could finish the glyphs.
A subset of the Sylfaen font, which only contains the Latin, Armenian and Georgian glyphs, has been included with Windows as standard since Windows 2000 . The Ethiopian glyphs were later revised and have been available under the new name Nyala since Windows Vista .