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Kefa-Regular

Geez Archive · Jeremie Hornus · 2006

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Kefa-Regular specimen from Geez Archive

A single-weight typeface released in 2006 by Jeremie Hornus covering the full Ethiopic Unicode range alongside Latin, designed to support Amharic text.

About

Developed as part of the MATD Reading programme, Kefa covers 384 characters in the main Ethiopic block (U+1200–U+137F) and 32 in the Ethiopic Supplement (U+1380–U+139F), totalling 1,134 glyphs. The family exists in one style only, suited to body text settings where Ethiopic script fidelity is the primary requirement. Archived and served via Geez Archive's CSS API with stable file URLs for web embedding.

Classification

A humanist serif with full Ethiopic script coverage alongside Latin, designed to support Amharic text. The category is inferred from the Latin sample and the typeface's text-setting purpose.

Weights

Regular

Languages

LatinEthiopic

Tags

ethiopicamharicgeeztextunicodeacademicsingle-weightafrican