With over 600 “fidäls” (graphemes) a fascinating syllabary for sure! While today the Ge’ez language indeed is used in liturgy only, the script is still used by dozens of East-African languages (with up to about 60 million potential users). Astonishingly, there is only a handful of digital fonts available. More interestingly, typesetting classical Ge’ez poses challenges which are not easily solved by current software.
I have attempted a modern type design based on the earliest printed Ge’ez and hacked together custom line-breaking to typeset a piece of the Ge’ez bible (which to-date does not exist in electronic plain text).
I have attempted a modern type design based on the earliest printed Ge’ez and hacked together custom line-breaking to typeset a piece of the Ge’ez bible (which to-date does not exist in electronic plain text).
http://dodecaglotta.com/figures/Ethiopic-incunabula-3000px.p...