Habesha Serif Distort
Geez Archive · Behailu Berento · 2022
A single-weight Ethiopic display face with a distorted serif construction, covering the full Amharic Unicode range across 663 glyphs.
About
Designed by Behailu Berento and released in 2022, the font covers the main Ethiopic block (U+1200–U+137F) and the Ethiopic Supplement (U+1380–U+139F), giving comprehensive support for Amharic text. Latin characters are included alongside the 663-glyph Ethiopic set. The distortion concept gives the face an expressive, experimental quality suited to display and branding contexts rather than extended reading.
Classification
Despite the foundry categorising it as sans-serif, the name explicitly references a serif construction with deliberate distortion, placing it firmly in the display category. The expressive, experimental character of the Ethiopic glyphs suggests decorative display intent rather than a workhorse text face.