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Open-source Unicode Hebrew Fonts (sorted by diacritic support and style) • פונטים בעברית, יוניקוד וקוד פתוח
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The tables below are organized according to font support for t’amim and/or niqqud. Click the table headers to sort alphabetically or by type foundry.
Fonts supporting both niqqud and t’amim
אבגד | Font | Diacritic Support | Notes | Style | Foundry | Typographer | Version | License |
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———————————————————————————————————————————— | Shlomo SemiStam | t’amim and niqqud | missing: wide ligatures | Scribal Ashkenaz | Shlomo Orbach | Shlomo Orbach | 1.0; 2010 | SIL OFL 1.1 |
Shlomo Stam | t’amim and niqqud | missing: wide ligatures | Scribal Ashkenaz | Shlomo Orbach | Shlomo Orbach | 1.0; 2010 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Keter Aram Sova(Aleppo Codex, 10th cen. CE | t’amim and niqqud | Serif Scribal | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.103yg | GPL+FE | ||
Keter YG(based on Aleppo Codex, modernized | t’amim and niqqud | Serif | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.103yg | GPL+FE | ||
Shofar | t’amim and niqqud positioning errors: | Serif | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 1.6 | GPL+FE | ||
Taamey Ashkenaz | t’amim and niqqud positioning errors: | Serif | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.150yg | GPL+FE | ||
Taamey Frank CLM | t’amim and niqqud | Serif | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.11 | GPL+FE | ||
Frank Ruehl CLM | t’amim and niqqud positioning errors: | Serif | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 0.121 | GPL 2.0 | ||
Cardo | t’amim and niqqud positioning errors: | Serif | Fonts for Scholars | David J. Perry | 1.045 | SIL OFL 1.1 | ||
NotoSerifHebrew | t’amim and niqqud positioning errors: | missing: qamatz qatan | Serif | Google Inc. | Monotype Design Team | 2.000 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Ezra SIL SR | t’amim and niqqud | missing: wide ligatures | Serif | SIL | SIL NRSI Team | 2.51, 2007 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Shlomo(based on Ezra SIL | t’amim and niqqud | missing: wide ligatures | Serif | Shlomo Orbach | SIL NRSI Team, adapted by Shlomo Orbach | 1.0; 2011 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Miriam Mono CLM | t’amim and niqqud positioning errors: | Monospaced Sans-serif | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 0.120 | GPL 2.0 | ||
Taamey David CLM | t’amim and niqqud | Sans-Serif | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.11 | GPL+FE | ||
FiraGO Hebrew | t’amim and niqqud | Sans-Serif | bBox Type GmbH | Natalie Rauch | 1.001 | SIL OFL 1.1 | ||
Nachlieli CLM | t’amim and niqqud positioning errors: meteg | Sans-Serif | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 0.131 | GPL 2.0 | ||
Noto Sans | t’amim and niqqud positioning error: | missing: numbers punctuation | Sans-Serif | Google Inc. | Monotype Design Team | n/a | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Open Sans Hebrew | t’amim and niqqud | missing: rafé varika yiddish ligatures | Sans-Serif | Ascender Corporation | Yanek Iontef | 1.10 | Apache 2.0 |
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Fonts supporting niqqud only
אבגד | Font | Diacritic Support | Notes | Style | Foundry | Typographer | Version | License |
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———————————————————————————————————————————— | Frank CurledLamed CLM | niqqud only positioning errors: | missing: varika | Serif | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh, adapted by Yoram Gnat | 1.0 | GPL 2.0 |
Linux Libertine | niqqud only | missing: qamats qatan varika wide ligatures | Serif | Libertine Open Fonts Projekt | Philipp H. Poll | 5.3.0 | GPL & SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Frank Ruhl Libre | niqqud only positioning errors: | missing: varika backwards facing nun | Serif | Fontef | Yanek Iontef | 5.0.0 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Liberation Serif | niqqud only positioning errors: | missing: wide ligatures | Serif | Red Hat/Ascender Corp. | Steve Matteson | 2.00.1 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
FreeSerif | niqqud only positioning error: | missing: qamats qatan | Serif | GNU Free Font Project | Primož Peterlin, Steve White | 412.2263 | GPL 3.0 | |
Tinos | niqqud only positioning errors: | missing: wide ligatures | Serif | Monotype Imaging Inc. | Steve Matteson | 1.23 | Apache 2.0 | |
Hadasim CLM | niqqud only positioning errors: | missing: varika | Serif | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 0.110 | GPL+FE | |
Shmulik CLM | niqqud only positioning errors: | missing: varika | Serif | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.12 | GPL+FE | |
BenOr Rashi | niqqud only | Cursive Sepharadi | Sefaradizo | David ben Or | 1.023 | UFL 1.0 | ||
Mekorot Rashi | niqqud only positioning errors: | missing: varika meteg | Cursive Sepharadi | Mekorot | Alan Hoenig/Omega Makor (with corrections by Yoram Gnat | 0.003 | LPPL 1.3c | |
Dorian CLM (Italic) | niqqud only positioning errors: | Cursive | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 2.1 | GPL 2.0 | ||
Gveret Levin AlefAlefAlef | niqqud only | missing: varika meteg yiddish ligatures | cursive ktav-yad | אאא | Shavit Yaacov | 1.000 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Máshkit(a/k/a méshit, máshet, máshket, vayberteutsch | niqqud only | missing: varika gershayim | Mashkit | Refoyl Finkl | Raphael Finkel | 001.000 | GPL+FE | |
FreeMono | niqqud only positioning errors: | missing: qamats qatan ḥolam | Monospaced Sans-serif | GNU Free Font Project | Primož Peterlin, Steve White | 1.215 | GPL 3.0 | |
Cousine | niqqud only | missing: wide ligatures | Monospaced Sans-Serif | Monotype Imaging Inc. | Steve Matteson | 1.21 | Apache 2.0 | |
David CLM | niqqud only | missing: wide ligatures backwards facing nun | Sans-Serif | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 0.133 | GPL 2.0 | |
David Libre | niqqud only | missing: wide ligatures varika | Sans-Serif | Monotype | Meir Sadan | 1.000 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Arimo | niqqud only | missing: wide ligatures | Sans-Serif | Monotype Imaging Inc. | Steve Matteson | 1.23 | Apache 2.0 | |
Heebo | niqqud only | missing: varika meteg backwards facing nun | Sans-Serif | Oded Ezer | Meir Sadan | 2.000 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Varela Round | niqqud only | missing: varika rafé meteg ligatures yiddish qamats qatan ḥolam | Sans-Serif | אאא (Avraham Cornfeld) | Joe Prince | 3.000 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Miriam CLM | niqqud only positioning errors: | missing: wide ligatures backwards facing nun | Sans-Serif | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 0.120 | GPL 2.0 | |
Miriam Libre | niqqud only | missing: varika rafé meteg ligatures qamats qatan | Sans-Serif | Hagilda | Michal Sahar | 1.000 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Assistant | niqqud only | missing: varika meteg ligatures yiddish | Sans-Serif | The Amirim Project | Ben Nathan | 2.001 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
IBMPlexSansHebrew | niqqud only positioning errors: | missing: varika meteg qamatz qatan | Sans-Serif | IBM Plex | Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, Piter van Rosmalen, Yanek Iontef | 1.1 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Simple CLM | niqqud only positioning errors: | missing: varika | Sans-Serif | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 0.11 | GPL+FE | |
Alef | niqqud only | missing: varika rafé meteg qamats qatan yiddish ligatures | Sans-Serif | HaGilda | HaGilda Tel Aviv | 1.001 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Bellefair | niqqud only | missing: varika rafé meteg yiddish ligatures | Sans-Serif | The Bellefair Project | Nick Shinn & Liron Lavi Turkenic | 1.003 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Shuneet (Square, Classic) | niqqud only positioning errors: | missing: qamats qatan | Sans-Serif | Michael Cunliffe Thompson | Michael Cunliffe Thompson | 2.0 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Secular One | niqqud only | missing: varika rafé meteg yiddish ligatures | Sans-Serif | Michal Sahar | Hagilda | 1.000 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Suez One | niqqud only | missing: varika rafé meteg yiddish ligatures | Sans-Serif | Michal Sahar | Hagilda | 1.000 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
FreeSans | niqqud only positioning errors: | missing: qamats qatan | Sans-Serif | GNU Free Font Project | Primož Peterlin, Steve White | 0412.2268 | GPL 3.0 | |
Liberation Sans | niqqud only positioning errors: | missing: wide ligatures | Sans-Serif | Red Hat/Ascender Corp. | Steve Matteson | 2.00.1 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Ptil (Wide and Narrow | niqqud only positioning errors: | missing: qamats qatan meteg Yiddish ligatures | ktav-yad Sans-Serif | Amos Jerbi | Amos Jerbi | 1.000 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Amatic SC | niqqud only | missing: varika meteg yiddish ligatures | ktav-yad Sans-Serif | The Amatic Project | Ben Nathan, Vernon Adams | 2.000 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Dorian CLM | niqqud only positioning errors: | missing: wide ligatures backwards facing nun | Sans-Serif | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 2.1 | GPL 2.0 | |
Makabi YG(based on Qumran Isaiah Scroll, modernized | niqqud only | missing: varika qamats qatan yiddish ligatures | ktav-yad antiquity | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 1.03 | GPL+FE |
Fonts with severely broken niqqud but otherwise useful
(please help to fix and report to font maintainers)
אבגד | Font | Diacritic Support | Notes | Style | Foundry | Typographer | Version | License |
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———————————————————————————————————————————— | Mekorot Vilna | general diacritic positioning errors | missing: qamats qatan ḥolam varika ligatures | Serif | Mekorot | Maxim Iorsh | 0.1 | GPL 2.0 |
Drugulin CLM | general diacritic positioning errors | missing: qamats qatan ḥolam varika ligatures | Serif | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 0.1 | GPL 2.0 | |
Linux Biolinum(Regular, Outline, Shadow, Keyboard | general diacritic positioning errors | missing: varika qamats qatan ligatures | Serif | Libertine Open Fonts Projekt | Philipp H. Poll | 1.1.8 | GPL & SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Rubik | general diacritic positioning errors positioning errors: | missing: varika rafé meteg qamats qatan ligatures | Sans-Serif | Meir Sadan | Hubert & Fischer | 2.000 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Aharoni CLM | general diacritic positioning errors | missing: qamats qatan most ligatures | Sans-Serif | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 0.1 | GPL 2.0 | |
MPlus1p | general diacritic positioning errors | missing: varika qamats qatan vav w/ ḥolam ligatures | Sans-Serif | The M+ Project | Coji Morishita | 1.061 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Felix007 | general diacritic positioning errors | missing: varika alef/ pataḥ alef w/ qamats ḥolam qamats qatan ligatures | Sans-Serif | felix007 | Felix Wasserstein | 1.000 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
OSP Le Patin Helvète | general diacritic positioning errors | missing: ḥolam qamats qatan gershayim incomplete yiddish | Sans-Serif | OSP Foundry | Ludivine Loiseau | 0.9 | GPL+FE | |
FredokaOne | general positioning errors | no niqqud/t’amim missing: | Display | The Fredoka Project | Ben Nathan, Milena B. Brandão | 2.000 | OFL 1.1 | |
Noot | general diacritic positioning errors | missing: varika qamats qatan meteg | Display | Amos Jerbi | Amos Jerbi | 1.000 | SIL OFL 1.1 |
Fonts not supporting niqqud
אבגד | Font | Diacritic Support | Notes | Style | Foundry | Typographer | Version | License |
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———————————————————————————————————————————— | Sofer Stam Ashkenaz | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Scribal Ashkenaz | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.110 | GPL+FE |
Sofer Stam Sefarad | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Scribal Sepharadi | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.110 | GPL+FE | |
Drugulin CLM (Italic) | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Mashkit | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 0.1 | GPL 2.0 | |
Pfennig | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Sans-Serif | Daniel Johnson | Daniel Johnson | 2.0 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Carmela | does not support diacritics | missing: varika meteg rafe qamats qatan | Sans-Serif | Nir Yenni | Nir Yenni | 1.001 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Carmelit | does not support diacritics | missing: varika meteg qamats qatan ligatures | Sans-Serif | Amos Jerbi | Amos Jerbi (based on Nir Yenni’s Carmela | 1.000 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Hillel CLM | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Sans-Serif | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 1.0 | GPL 2.0 | |
Ellinia CLM | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Sans-Serif | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 0.101 | GPL 2.0 | |
Comix No2 CLM | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Sans-Serif | Culmus Project | Richard Schoeller, Maxim Iorsh | 1.0 | GPL 2.0 | |
Dragon | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Sans-Serif | Printer Killer | Printer Killer | n/a | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Journal CLM | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Sans-Serif | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 0.105 | GPL 2.0 | |
Squarish Sans CT | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Display | Christtrekker Fonts | Christtrekker | n/a | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Tnua Libre | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Display Sans-Serif | Elad Mordechai Mizrahi | Elad Mordechai Mizrahi | n/a | GPL 3.0 | |
GanCLM | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Display | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 1.01 | GPL 2.0 | |
Gladia CLM | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Display | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 1.02 | GPL 2.0 | |
Horev CLM | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Display | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 1.0 | GPL 2.0 | |
Ozrad CLM | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Display | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 1.02 | GPL 2.0 | |
Trashim CLM | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Display | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 1.0 | GPL 2.0 | |
Asakim | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Display | Printer Killer | Printer Killer | 3.0 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Paskol | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Display | Printer Killer | Printer Killer | 2.0 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Migdal HaEmeq | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Display | Elad Mordechai Mizrahi | Elad Mordechai Mizrahi | 1.0 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Retro Perspective | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Display | Elad Mordechai Mizrahi | Elad Mordechai Mizrahi | n/a | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Stop Motion | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Display | Elad Mordechai Mizrahi | Elad Mordechai Mizrahi | n/a | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Looks Like S’pht | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Display | Christtrekker Fonts | Christtrekker | n/a | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Nehama | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Display ktav-yad | Printer Killer | Printer Killer | n/a | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
ShArpie | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | ktav-yad Sans-Serif | Baruch Sienna | 001.000 | Public Domain | ||
Miri | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | ktav-yad Sans-Serif | Elad Mordechai Mizrahi | Elad Mordechai Mizrahi | 1.0 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Yehuda CLM | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | ktav-yad Sans-Serif | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 0.1 | GPL 2.0 | |
Amatica SC | does not support diacritics | missing: varika meteg ligatures | ktav-yad Sans-Serif | The Amatic Project | Ben Nathan, Vernon Adams, Thomas Jockin | 2.000 | SIL OFL 1.1 | |
Refoyl | does not support most diacritics | missing: varika meteg qubutz ḥolam ḥatef ḥolam ligatures | Cursive ktav-yad | Refoyl Finkl | Raphael Finkel | 1.001 | GPL+FE | |
Ktav-Yad CLM | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Cursive ktav-yad | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 0.91 | GPL 2.0 | |
Ellinia CLM (Italic) | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Cursive | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 0.101 | GPL 2.0 | |
Anka CLM | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Cursive | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 1.0 | GPL 2.0 | |
Nachlaot | does not support most diacritics | missing: sheva qamats qatan ḥolam ḥatef ḥolam varika meteg qubutz ligatures | Cursive | Refoyl Finkl | Raphael Finkel | n/a | GPL+FE | |
Hebrew Square Bet-Shearim(Bet Shearim burial inscriptions, 3 CE) | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | inscription antiquity | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.05-1 | GPL+FE | |
Hebrew Square Ben-Kosba(Bar Kokhba letters, 132 CE) | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | ktav-yad antiquity | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.05-1 | GPL+FE | |
Hebrew Square Habakkuk(Habakkuk commentary, c.0 CE) | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | ktav-yad antiquity | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.06-1 | GPL+FE | |
Hebrew Square Isaiah(Great Isaiah scroll, Qumran, 2nd cen. BCE) | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | ktav-yad antiquity | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.05-1 | GPL+FE | |
Hebrew Square Samaritan(Samaritan Pentateuch, 14th cen. CE) | Samaritan-Hebrew niqqud only | sans-sofit | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat (edited by Uri DeYoung | 0.2 | GPL+FE | ||
Hebrew Paleo Qumran(Leviticus Scroll, 2nd cen. BCE) | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | sans-sofit ancient | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.06-1 | GPL+FE | |
Aramaic Imperial Yeb(Yeb/Elephantine Papyri, 407 BCE) | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | sans-sofit ancient | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.06-1 | GPL+FE | |
Hebrew Paleo Lakhish(Lakhich ostraca, 587 BCE) | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | sans-sofit ancient | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.06-1 | GPL+FE | |
Aramaic VIIBCE(Gözne inscription, 7th cen. BCE) Morey Krishna: lagu backsound saat Batara Krishna kasih ceramah 4. Surya Putra Karna: theme song Karna, setiap Karna tampil 6. Surya Dev So Gaye: lagu ninabobo Kunti pd Karna sblm Karna dibuang 5. Film mahabharata full episode subtitle indonesia. | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | sans-sofit inscription ancient | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.06-1 | GPL+FE | |
Hebrew Paleo Siloam(Siloam inscription, 703 BCE) | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | sans-sofit inscription ancient | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.06-1 | GPL+FE | |
Aramaic Early Bar-Raqib(Bar Raqib inscription, 8th cen. BCE) | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | sans-sofit inscription ancient | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.06-1 | GPL+FE | |
Hebrew Paleo Mesha(Mesha Stele/Moabite Stone, 850 BCE) | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | sans-sofit inscription ancient | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.06-1 | GPL+FE | |
Hebrew Paleo Gezer(Gezer Calendar, 10th cen. BCE) | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | sans-sofit inscription ancient | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.06-1 | GPL+FE | |
Phoenician Ahiram(Ahiram of Gebel Sarcophagus, c.1300-1000 BCE) | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | sans-sofit inscription ancient | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.06-1 | GPL+FE | |
Proto Canaanite(Sarabit al-Kadim inscriptions, c.1700 BCE) | does not support diacritics | alternative characters with dagesh and rafé | sans-sofit inscription ancient | Culmus Project | Yoram Gnat | 0.06-1 | GPL+FE | |
Caladings CLM | does not support diacritics | no niqqud/t’amim | Symbols & Dingbats | Culmus Project | Maxim Iorsh | 0.133 | GPL 2.0 |
Additional Non-Hebrew Open Source Unicode Fonts:
- Greek &Latin, Akkadian, Egyptian (Hieroglyphs and Demotic), Cyrillic and Old Church Slavonic, Ethiopic, Arabic, and more.
- Assorted Dingbats of all sorts!
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Why did we make this font pack?
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The importance of sharing documents with Unicode 4.0+ compliant Hebrew fonts was underlined for us in early 2010, after the liturgy of a popular siddur was contributed to the Open Siddur Project with a public domain declaration. The format of the file shared was a PDF, and unfortunately, most of the text rendered in the PDF was encoded with old proprietary Hebrew fonts made by a commercial font foundry, Elsner+Flake. These fonts were developed prior to the standardization of Hebrew in Unicode. Efraim and I made some progress in attempting to convert the documents but so far we have not been successful. (Perhaps you can help convert them.) The contributor had no other copies of the liturgy except for what was contained in the PDF shared. The entire sad episode indicated the need for publishers of digital documents to prepare their documents in open standard formats, with text encoded with open standard fonts. (You are free to try your hand at converting the two documents (1, 2) which were shared by the Avi Chai Foundation. [Update: Since first posting this, YZahn reported some progress in converting these files to Unicode: 1, 2.) | |
Given the twenty year history (at least) of digital Hebrew font development, there are quite a few pre-Unicode Hebrew fonts floating around the Internet and locally, on folk’s home computers. On the Internet, they sometimes show up on font download websites with a note that they are shareware or freeware with some restriction or another. Documents prepared with non-Unicode fonts are destined to be unreadable. | |
Even if a Hebrew font is Unicode it might 1) not support the full range of diacritical marks (nikkud/vowels and t’amim/trope/cantillation) and 2) not be licensed in such a way that it does not conflict with free/libre and open source licenses. Currently, there are a dozen open-source licensed and Unicode compliant Hebrew fonts that support the full range of Hebrew diacritical marks (vowels and cantillation). | |
Moreover, by license these fonts are free for creative reuse (as well as free without license fee to download). SIL International’s Ezra SIL font and David Perry’s Cardo font are both shared using SIL’s Open Font License version 1.1.0. Yoram Gnat’s fonts at the Culmus Project are all shared freely with a GPL including the font exception clause. Maxim Iorsh’s fonts (for instance, Drugulin CLM) are shared with a GPL 2 but without the font exception, and so the use of Iorsh’s fonts can sometimes conflict with the licenses of other free/libre and open source projects. (A full list of acceptable open source licenses for digital fonts is available here.) | |
It is often a wonder how certain typefaces, designed over a hundred years ago and residing in the Public Domain, can nevertheless be restricted by software licenses. After all, even new typefaces in the United States and Canada cannot be copyrighted; only the underlying software logic in digital fonts that control the placement of letters and diacritics can be copyrighted. While the art may be in the Public Domain, the underlying logic may be considered software and thus be protected by copyright. The good news is that many digital fonts use the underlying font logic written by John Hudson which itself is freely licensed open source software (with the MIT license). | |
If you or your company designed a Hebrew font which you never updated to Unicode, why not share it with an open font license so that others may adopt it, update it, and create anew with it? |
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Several Hebrew fonts for PC (Windows) are available for free from http://www.snunit.k12.il/hebrew.html. Please be patient! This site is in Israel and is often slow to load. The example of pointed text above uses Snuit's Web Hebrew AD font. These Hebrew fonts map to ASCII 224-250, high ASCII characters which are not normally available on the keyboard, but this is the mapping that most Hebrew websites use. I'm not sure how you use those characters on a Mac. In Windows, you can go to Start Programs Accessories System Tools Character Map and select them there. If you know the mappings in Windows, you can also type the letters by holding down the ALT key and pressing the number as 4 digits on the numeric keypad. For example, Alef maps to ASCII 224, so if you hold down ALT and press 0224 in the numeric keypad, it will type an Alef. In addition, MS Word for Windows will let you assign shortcut keys to these Hebrew letters at Insert Symbol.
If you use MS Internet Explorer version 5 or AOL version 5, you can download Hebrew support for your browser from the Windows Update center on Microsoft's website, http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/. Very few sites are using this Hebrew support at this time, but they may in the future. Microsoft's Hebrew support includes Hebrew versions of various standard fonts, such as Times New Roman and Arial, as well as a few new Hebrew fonts, such as Rod and Miriam. These fonts map in very strange ways and are not keyboard-accessible; however, you can set up shortcut keys in MS Word for Windows at Insert Symbol.
If you have AOL, there are also Hebrew fonts that can be downloaded from AOL. Some of these have intuitive keyboard mappings, so you can for example type the letter H and get the letter Heh in these fonts. To find fonts on AOL, go to Keyword: File Search, select Shareware, and search for the term 'hebrew font.' You may also want to check out the Download area in AOL's Jewish Community (Keyword: Jewish Community). The big alefbet at the top of the page uses a font I downloaded from AOL years ago (it's just called Hebrew; I don't know if it's still there). Many of these Hebrew fonts have the same high-ASCII mappings as the Snuit fonts (which is good, because that's what most websites with Hebrew use), but some of them have intuitive keyboard mappings (a = Alef; b = Bet, g = Gimmel, etc.).
Of course, all of the above fonts would require you to type Hebrew backwards, because word processors go from left to right and Hebrew goes from right to left! If you are serious about writing a significant amount of text in Hebrew, you will need a Hebrew word processor. An excellent Hebrew word processor is DavkaWriter, available from Davka Software. DavkaWriter comes with many attractive Hebrew fonts including both consonents and vowels that will map to your keyboard in an intuitive phonetic way or in the standard Israeli keyboard format. It is very easy to switch between Hebrew and English within a document. DavkaWriter even comes with little stickers to put on the keys of your keyboard so you can learn their keyboard mappings, and an onscreen display shows you their keyboard mappings. Davka also has a lot of fonts available, as well as a lot of other Hebrew and Judaic software.
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