Amharic Fonts

Both ANSI and UTF-8 are character encoding formats. ANSI is a Microsoft-specific standard mainly used to encode Latin alphabets, whereas UTF-8 is an implementation of Unicode that supports more than 128,000 characters.

Unicode is a universal character encoding standard. It defines how individual characters are represented in web pages, text files, and documents.

There are different types of Unicode encoding, with UTF-8 and UTF-16 being the most common. UTF-8 is widely used on the web and is the default encoding standard in many software programs.

UTF-8 encoding can use up to four bytes to represent a character. For English letters, UTF-8 uses one byte. European (Latin), Hebrew, and Arabic characters typically use two bytes. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other Asian characters use three bytes, while certain special symbols may require four bytes.

To type Amharic on your keyboard, you have several options. First, you can download Unicode fonts from the links above, install them on your system, then open any text editor such as Microsoft Word, select the Amharic font you installed, and start typing.

Alternatively, you can use our online Amharic typing tool which allows you to type in English and get Amharic (Ge'ez) text without installing any fonts.

For modern websites, Noto Sans Ethiopic is the best choice - clean, readable, with 9 weights perfect for body text and headings.

For formal content, use Noto Serif Ethiopic with its elegant serif design.

For classical or religious texts, Abyssinica SIL offers beautiful traditional calligraphy.

For Windows: Download the font file (.ttf or .otf), right-click on it, and select "Install" or "Install for all users". The font will be available in all your applications immediately.

For Mac: Download the font file, double-click to open it in Font Book, then click the "Install Font" button. The font will be available system-wide.

For Linux: Download the font file and copy it to the ~/.fonts directory (create it if it doesn't exist). Then run fc-cache -f -v in terminal to refresh the font cache.

After installation, you can use the Amharic font in any application like Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, Adobe Photoshop, or web browsers.

Yes! All fonts listed are 100% free for personal and commercial use under the SIL Open Font License.

Use them in websites, apps, logos, books, or any project without royalties.

For books and long texts: Noto Serif Ethiopic or Abyssinica SIL.

For business documents: Noto Sans Ethiopic (9 weights for hierarchy).

For religious/classical texts: Abyssinica SIL (traditional calligraphy).

Use at least 10-12pt font size for comfortable reading.

Ge'ez (Ethiopic script) is the writing system for Amharic, Tigrinya, and other Ethiopian/Eritrean languages. It's one of the world's oldest alphabets, dating back to the 4th century CE.

It's an abugida (each character = consonant + vowel). 33 consonants × 7 vowels = 230+ characters.

All fonts here support the complete Ethiopic Unicode range for Amharic, Tigrinya, Ge'ez, and other languages.