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Typefaces & Credits

The ancient Hebrew scripts on this site are typefaces, each modeled on a specific archaeological inscription. They're free software, and here's where they came from.

Paleo-Hebrew typefaces

All five are by Yoram Gnat, released through the Culmus project. Each is modeled on a specific inscription.

License

These typefaces are distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with a font exception:

As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this fonts, and embed this fonts or unaltered portions of this fonts into the document, this fonts do not by themself cause the resulting document to be covered by the GNU General Public License.

Full license text: GPL v2. The unmodified license files are distributed with the typefaces themselves.

Source

The typefaces are available from github.com/aharonium/fonts, collected from the Culmus project. Upstream: opensiddur/fonts.

We serve these typefaces unmodified. If that ever changes, the modified versions and their license will be made available here.

Interface typefaces

Suez One, Heebo and Space Mono, served via Google Fonts under the SIL Open Font License.