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Nyala (typeface)
Nyala
is a
TrueType font
based on
Sylfaen
and
designed
to support the
Latin alphabet
and the
Ge'ez script
used in
Ethiopic languages
. It was created by
John Hudson
of
Tiro Typeworks
, based on
drawings
by
Geraldine Wade
, and is part of
Windows Vista
,
Windows Server 2008
,
Windows 7
, and
Windows 8
. The
font
is named for the
mountain nyala
, a
species
of great
African
antelope
native
to the
highlands
of
Ethiopia
.