Sylfaen (typeface)

Sylfaen (of Welsh Sylfaen "Foundation" ) is a serif font for multiple writing systems, which was developed in 1998 by John Hudson, W. Ross Mills and Geraldine Wade for Microsoft.

In 1997, Microsoft commissioned to design a font for multiple writing systems. The finished font contains 3,842 characters and supports Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian, Georgian and Ethiopic script. The design of the Georgian glyphs is unfinished, because the designer Anton Dumbadze was murdered before he could finish the glyphs.

A subset of the Sylfaen font that contains only the Latin, Armenian and Georgian glyphs is included since Windows 2000 by default with Windows. The Ethiopian glyphs were later revised and are available since Windows Vista under the new name Nyala.