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Shiromeda

Geez Archive · Abraham Abebe · 2019

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Shiromeda specimen from Geez Archive

A two-weight Ethiopic typeface by Abraham Abebe, covering the full Unicode Ethiopic block and supplement for Amharic-language text.

About

Released in 2019, Shiromeda covers 384 characters from the main Ethiopic Unicode block (U+1200–U+137F) and 32 from the Ethiopic Supplement (U+1380–U+139F), alongside a basic Latin character set. With Regular and Bold weights, it is suited to text-setting in Amharic. The family is distributed via Geez Archive's CSS API with stable file URLs for web embedding.

Classification

The Latin sample and overall construction suggest a humanist sans-serif approach. The primary purpose is Ethiopic script coverage for Amharic, spanning the full Unicode Ethiopic block and supplement.

Weights

RegularBold

Languages

EthiopicLatin

Tags

ethiopicamharicgeezunicodeafricantextfunctional