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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). The project included support for
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Latin glyphs were designed to harmonize with the Ethiopic glyphs to facilitate the typesetting of texts including un-transliterated foreign names, technical terms, etc. The Ethiopic characters were based on initial drawings by Geraldine Wade.
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In 2003–04, John Hudson completely re-drew the Sylfaen Ethiopic glyphs from the original Sylfaen, regularising them and making them suited to a wider range of publishing needs. This re-design was released by Microsoft in
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letters. The development of the Georgian script came to a halt when Georgian type designer Anton Dumbadze was fatally struck by a car before being able to finish the design. As a result the font is incomplete.
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Armenian glyphs were designed by Geraldine Wade, under the guidance of Armenian type designer Manvel Shmavonyan, and his Russian colleague
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Greek glyphs were designed by Geraldine Wade, based on the Latin glyphs, with consultation from Gerry Leonidas. Only the glyphs used in
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only include a subset of the original designs. In particular, IPA, Polytonic Greek, Ethiopic glyphs are missing. It supports
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Cyrillic glyphs were designed by John Hudson. The design was reviewed by Maxim Zhukov, typographic coordinator for the
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font development. Part of this project was producing a multi-script font used for displaying
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Sylfaen is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the
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Latin glyphs were designed by John Hudson, and the first script developed for Sylfaen.
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font family designed by John Hudson and W. Ross Mills of
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to consult on the production of support materials for
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Index

Category
Designer(s)
Microsoft
Foundry
Tiro Typeworks
United States

serif
Tiro Typeworks
Monotype Typography
Sylfaen
Welsh
foundation
Microsoft Typography
OpenType
glyphs
Latin
IPA
Cyrillic
Greek
Armenian
Georgian
Ge'ez (Ethiopian) characters
United Nations
monotonic orthography
Vladimir Yefimov
ParaType
Moscow
khutsuri
mkhedruli

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