• You only need a unicode Ethiopic font (such as GF Zemen) in your computer's font folder (usually in C:\WINDOWS\Fonts on windows) to be able to see Amharic and Ge'ez fonts.

If the following text matches the image, then your browser is correctly rendering ethiopic font.

• text: ሙከራ
• image:

With Internet Explorer 6, you will be able to read the pages on this website (you may wish to set a larger text size in the 'View' menu), but Mozilla Firefox works even better, with the right settings. Nevertheless, we recommend installing one of the following fonts to be able to read materials elsewhere on the Internet.

Free Ethiopic fonts and keyboard downloads

• Keyboard driver
  • self install font, amharic keyboard, manual

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
• Ethiopia Jiret
  • self install
  • font only. Unzip the .ttf file under c: on windows.
• TITUS Cyberbit
  • TITUS Cyberbit Basic
• Visual Ge'ez
  • Visual Geez Unicode, Visual Geez Unicode Agazian, Visual Geez Unicode Title
• Typing Help
  • Typing Help
• Code 2000 (Shareware)
  • Code2000 - thousands of fonts 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.

commercial softwares

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

Compatibility Issues

see Wikipedia Talk:Can't_see_the_font?