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Aramaic Fonts

Assyrian Information Management (AIM)

Posted: Sunday, March 21, 1999 at 07:21 AM UT
Updated: May 05, 2025

These Aramaic (Syriac) fonts are stored within the Assyrian Information Management (AIM) academic repository server to help preserve and promote the Aramaic language.

The Estrangelo font is an open source font and can be used for personal or commercial purposes for the preservation and advancement of the Aramaic [Syriac] language.

The remaining fonts were contributed to this section by the type designers/typographers for preservation purposes only and can be used only for personal use.

Installation help for Aramaic [Syriac] fonts:

Review the Aramaic Dictionary,
font installation section
View keyboard maps
View and download fonts | Additional fonts (UTF-8)
View alphabet with various scripts
Type in ancient scripts: Cuneiform, Akkadian, Aramaic and more
Microsoft: Syriac OpenType Specification | Arial Unicode MS (download)
Google: Noto Sans Syriac | Noto Sans Syriac Eastern

AIM is hosting and developing these website projects.
Please visit the information section to learn more about this website.

NOTE: The fonts are provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement of copyright, patent, trademark, or other right. Additionally, in no event shall Assyrian Information Management (AIM | atour.com) be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, including any general, special, indirect, incidential, or consequential damages, whether in an action of contract, tort, or otherwise, arising from, out of the use or inability to use the fonts.

Keyboard Maps

View keyboard maps: Estrangelo (Aramaic) | Syriac | Arabic | English

Download Fonts

Estrangelo (V1.1) (TrueType) — The official font used at Assyrian Information Management (AIM) and various sections of www.atour.com, such as the Aramaic Lexicon and Concordance (online dictionary). The Estrangelo font is an open source font and can be used for personal or commercial purposes for the preservation and advancement of the Aramaic [Syriac] language. Unfortunately, the development of the Estrangelo font predated the standardization process to the Unicode Standard of UTF-8. However, the font is beautifully rendered and can be used in optical character recognition (OCR) projects of ancient and contemporary Aramaic texts.

Aramaic (Syriac) scripts

A graphical representation of the different scripts used by the Assyrians.

The first line is the Eastern Estrangela script.
The second line is the Western Estrangela script.
The third line is the modern Eastern script (Swadaya).
The last line is the modern Western script (Serto).

Additional fonts (UTF8)

Meltho fonts by Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute.
Choose version: Windows ZIP | Linux

East Syriac Adiabene (originally one of the Meltho fonts, but not available in the current distribution of that package as this font was thought to be lost)

Microsoft Arial Unicode MS font family
Download from: Google Code Archive or Atour archive


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