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Sylfaen font family

Overview

Sylfaen was designed for Microsoft in 1998 by John Hudson and W. Ross Mills of Tiro Typeworks, and Geraldine Wade of Monotype Typography. Sylfaen is a Welsh word meaning "foundation"; an apt name since the font stemmed from research into the typographic requirements of many different scripts and languages. This version of Sylfaen supports the WGL4.0 character set, for Pan-European language coverage. In addition to Latin, Greek and Cyrillic letterforms, the font contains the characters necessary for support of the Armenian and Georgian languages.

Description
File name Sylfaen.ttf
Styles & Weights Sylfaen
Designers John Hudson/Geraldine Wade
Copyright © 2018 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Font vendor MS
Script Tags dlng:'Armn', 'Cyrl', 'Geor', 'Grek', 'Latn'
slng:'Armn', 'Cyrl', 'Geor', 'Grek', 'Latn'
Code pages 1252 Latin 1
1250 Latin 2: Eastern Europe
1251 Cyrillic
1253 Greek
1254 Turkish
1257 Windows Baltic
Mac Roman Macintosh Character Set (US Roman)
Fixed pitch False

Licensing and redistribution info

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Products that supply this font

Product name Font version
Windows 11 See the Windows 11 page.
Windows 10 See the Windows 10 page.
Windows 8.1 See the Windows 8.1 page.
Windows 8 See the Windows 8 page.
Windows 7 See the Windows 7 page.
Windows Vista 5.00
Windows XP 1.00
Windows Server 2008 5.00
Windows Server 2003 1.00

This typeface is also available within Office applications. For more information visit this page.

Style & weight examples

Sylfaen

Sylfaen sample