Menbere by Aleme Tadesse, Sorkin Type, Eben Sorkin — Sans Serif Font — preview 11 / 3
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

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About Menbere Font

Menbere is an Ethiopic font with a Latin matched to it. Aleme Tadesse designed Menbere with assistance from Eben Sorkin for the Latin. It is publishing by Sorkin Type Co. While contemporary in feeling, Menbere avoids being influenced by the Latin script. In the design of Menbere, Aleme judiciously modernizes traditional Ethiopic using low-contrast strokes that retain traditional gestures. Due to its multiple weights, and formal style, Menbere is an excellent choice for use in corporate design, both in print and on screen as well as UI and wayfinding. Menbere is also well suited to mixed script typesetting. Menbere is named after Alame’s mother. “Menbere” means “seat of honor”. Menbere uses different word spaces for texts set in Ge’ez derived languages vs those in Latin for additional ease in reading with the Ethiopic script benefiting from a more expansive word space. All Ge’ez script derived languages are covered including Amharic, Tigrinya, Tigre, Bilen, and Harari. To contribute, see github.com/SorkinType/Menbere .

Style & Use Cases

Overall Style
Clean, Modern, Sans Serif
Use Case
Body Text, UI
Ideal For
branding, interfaces, and modern layouts
Pairs With
a contrasting serif for headings

Menbere Specifications

Font FamilyMenbere
StyleRegular
Full NameMenbere Regular
Version1.000
Weight400 (Regular)
Glyph Count1333 glyphs
PostScript NameMenbere-Regular
DesignerAleme Tadesse
FormatTTF (TrueType)
File Size2653.6 KB

OpenType Features

Menbere ships with 10 OpenType features you can switch on in apps that support them (Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Figma, CSS font-feature-settings).

  • Contextual alternates
  • Case-sensitive forms
  • Fractions
  • Standard ligatures
  • Ordinals
  • Proportional figures
  • Scientific inferiors
  • Subscripts
  • Superscripts
  • Tabular figures
  • Variable font · axes: wght

Languages Supported

Menbere supports 426 languages.

How to Install Menbere Font

Step-by-step instructions for every platform

  1. 1Download the Menbere font file (.ttf or .otf).
  2. 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
  3. 3Right-click the font file.
  4. 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
  5. 5Menbere is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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Menbere Font is a versatile sans-serif font that works for both headings and body text. Pair it with a contrasting serif or slab serif font to add visual interest and a clear distinction between titles and body copy.

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Menbere Font

by Aleme Tadesse, Sorkin Type, Eben Sorkin

Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team · Updated July 2026

License: Open Font License (OFL)
Free
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