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Unicode Compliant and Free/Libre Open Source Licensed Hebrew Fonts

Open Source and Unicode Hebrew Font comparison

“Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world’s writing systems.”[1] 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 . . . → Read More: Unicode Compliant and Free/Libre Open Source Licensed Hebrew Fonts

Culmus Project’s Ancient Semitic Scripts Fonts Now Licensed GPL with “font exception”

Think of a favorite book, or siddur, and think of the style of the letters in it. Fonts are used to forms the words and portray the liturgy, poetry, and other texts. More often than not, these fonts are not free. They are licensed from typographic designers for a fee or used with permission. Sometimes . . . → Read More: Culmus Project’s Ancient Semitic Scripts Fonts Now Licensed GPL with “font exception”

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