The Ethiopic syllabary, also known as the Ge'ez alphabet, is used in East Africa for Amharic, Bilen, Tigre, Tigrinya, and other languages. The syllabary evolved from the script for classical Ge'ez, which is now a liturgical language.

The Ge'ez alphabet is not a standard font installation on most computers and must be added by the user. In order to view Ethiopic fonts, you only need a unicode Ethiopic font in your computer's font folder. In Windows systems, this folder is normally C:\Windows\Fonts. On Macintosh computers, you need only drag and drop the font onto the closed System folder. (The system will automatically sort it into the correct subfolder.) Once the font is installed, you may need to restart your web browser in order to make it recognize the newly installed fonts.

[edit] Free Ethiopic fonts and keyboard downloads

Only a font is needed to view Ethiopic script. A keyboard driver is required only if you also wish to write text in the script.

• Keyboard driver
  • self install font, amharic keyboard, manual Note this is only free for personal use
  • User:Keymanweb/Keymanweb - web keyboard integrated into Wikipedia

• washra (package of several fonts and a virtual keyboard)
  • home page with install instructions
  • fonts only. Unzip the .ttf file in C:\Windows\Fonts\ on windows without their directory.
• GF Zemen
  • font only.Save the .ttf file in C:\Windows\Fonts\ on windows.
  • (self install 9x/Me/NT/2K/XP

• WAZU JAPAN's Gallery of Unicode Fonts for Ethiopic
• Ethiopia Jiret
  • self install
  • font only. Unzip the .ttf file under C: on windows.
• TITUS Cyberbit
  • TITUS Cyberbit Basic
• Typing Help
  • Typing Help
• Code 2000 (Shareware)
  • Code2000 - font for thousands of scripts from around the world in one huge file, but can cause issues for Windows
• AbyssinicaSIL
  • AbyssinicaSIL
• freeSerif
  • zip file at freefont.Unzip the .ttf files in c:/windows/fonts on windows without their directory.

[edit] Commercial software

• software at http://www.amharicsoftwares.com/

• Omniglot
• WAZU JAPAN
• Keyman Desktop + Ethiopic keyboards
• GeezWord

[edit] Known compatibility issues

• RaghuHindi (raghindi.ttf) will cause bold and/or italic Ethiopic text to not show up. To fix the problem, just remove the font.