It includes 'classical caps', which are based on the tall capitals in Armenian manuscript. Only the glyphs used in monotonic orthography are available.Īrmenian glyphs were designed by Geraldine Wade, under the guidance of Armenian type designer Manvel Shmavonyan, and his Russian colleague Vladimir Yefimov at ParaType in Moscow. Greek glyphs were designed by Geraldine Wade, based on the Latin glyphs, with consultation from Gerry Leonidas. The design was reviewed by Maxim Zhukov, typographic coordinator for the United Nations. Latin glyphs were designed by John Hudson, and the first script developed for Sylfaen.Ĭyrillic glyphs were designed by John Hudson. The project included support for Latin, IPA, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian, Georgian, and Ethiopian characters. Part of this project was producing a multi-script font used for displaying glyphs in Microsoft's cancelled Web Resource for International Typography (WRIT) database, which was a tool for establishing character and glyph requirements for given languages, geographical areas or scripts (or combinations thereof). In 1997, Tiro was hired by Microsoft Typography to consult on the production of support materials for OpenType font development. The name Sylfaen is a Welsh word meaning foundation. Ross Mills of Tiro Typeworks, and Geraldine Wade of Monotype Typography. Sylfaen is a multi-script serif font family designed by John Hudson and W. 'Wikipedia' in English, Armenian, and Georgian, in Sylfaen For any commercial use (anything you make.
Greek and Cyrillic letterforms, the font contains the characters necessary for support of the Armenian and Georgian languages. Sylfaen is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.
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In Windows XP this is typically accessed via Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.įor easy access to the Armenian or Georgian (or Cyrillic or Greek) alphabets, as well as to special characters including letters with a variety of diacritical marks as used for other languages such as Norwegian, Polish or Portuguese, Windows users can use the Character Map utility.