Hebrew fonts
Every common Hebrew typeface in one preview: type your own text, toggle nikud, and filter by family to see which font actually fits your project.
Heebo
A geometric sans with Hebrew and Latin, drawn as a companion to Roboto and cut in many weights. Use it for website UI, apps, and mixed-direction layouts.
website UI · body text · headlines
Assistant
A humanist sans with a large x-height and a full Hebrew set, released through Google Fonts. Use it for UI, articles, and bilingual sites that need a calm reading face.
website UI · body text
Rubik
A slightly rounded sans with Latin, Hebrew, and several other scripts in one family. Use it when a friendly UI face must match across Hebrew and English.
website UI · headlines · body text
Secular One
A heavy, compact Hebrew-and-Latin display sans with a strong poster voice. Use it for headlines, covers, and short bilingual statements.
headlines · signage
Suez One
A dark slab-serif display face with matching Hebrew and Latin. Use it for titles, posters, and packaging that need a solid, blocky wordmark.
headlines · signage
Frank Ruhl Libre
An open revival of the classic Frank-Rühl book face, with Hebrew and Latin. Use it for articles, books, and any long Hebrew reading on screen or in print.
body text · print · religious texts
David Libre
A revival of Ismar David’s David, the everyday Israeli book serif, with a Latin complement. Use it for body copy, newspapers, and traditional-feeling websites.
body text · print
Alef
An early open Hebrew-and-Latin screen sans from Hagilda, drawn for reading on the web. Use it for simple sites and long bilingual articles.
website UI · body text
Amatic SC
A tall, informal small-caps hand face with Latin, Hebrew, and other scripts. Use it for invitations, kids’ material, and short decorative lines.
headlines · handwriting practice
Bellefair
A light, high-contrast Hebrew-and-Latin serif with a mannered, editorial cut. Use it for elegant headlines and short reading text in print or on a large screen.
headlines · print · body text
Karantina
A condensed Hebrew-and-Latin display face built for tight posters and banners. Use it for headlines, stickers, and short bilingual shouts.
headlines · signage
Miriam Libre
An open revival of the familiar Israeli Miriam sans, with Latin to match. Use it for UI, captions, and workaday bilingual documents.
website UI · body text · print
Noto Sans Hebrew
Google’s pan-Unicode Hebrew sans, with broad coverage of letters, nikud, and related marks. Use it when a site must mix Hebrew with many other Noto scripts, or when vowel points matter.
website UI · body text · religious texts
Noto Serif Hebrew
The serif companion to Noto Sans Hebrew, built for continuous text and diacritics. Use it for articles, books, and pointed Hebrew that must sit beside other Noto serifs.
body text · print · religious texts
Noto Rashi Hebrew
A digital Rashi (semi-cursive commentary) Hebrew in the Noto family. Use it for Rashi, Tosafot, and other commentary columns beside a square body face.
religious texts · print · body text
Varela Round
A rounded geometric sans with Hebrew and Latin in the same family. Use it for friendly UI, education sites, and soft headlines.
website UI · headlines
Arimo
A metric-compatible Arial substitute with Hebrew among its scripts. Use it when a document or site must stand in for Arial without a Microsoft licence.
website UI · body text · print
Tinos
A metric-compatible Times New Roman substitute that includes Hebrew. Use it for reports, academic drafts, and print that must match Times line-breaks.
body text · print
Cousine
A metric-compatible Courier New substitute with Hebrew coverage. Use it for code samples, plain-text dumps, and aligned bilingual tables.
website UI
IBM Plex Sans Hebrew
The Hebrew member of IBM Plex Sans, cut to sit with the Latin Plex UI family. Use it for product UI, documentation, and corporate bilingual sites.
website UI · body text
Open Sans
A widely used humanist sans whose current Google Fonts build includes Hebrew. Use it when a site already lives in Open Sans and needs Hebrew without switching families.
website UI · body text
Playpen Sans Hebrew
A marker-like Hebrew companion to Playpen Sans, with informal, even strokes. Use it for education, notes, and friendly headings next to Playpen Sans Latin.
handwriting practice · headlines
Gveret Levin
An Israeli school-cursive handwriting face now hosted on Google Fonts. Use it for notes, invitations, kids’ worksheets, and informal branding.
handwriting practice · headlines · print
Fredoka
A soft, rounded sans with Hebrew in the family, closer to a kids’ or brand face than a text cut. Use it for playful headlines and education UI.
headlines · website UI
Cardo
A scholar’s serif covering Latin, Greek, and Hebrew with pointing. Use it for critical editions, citations, and mixed classical-language papers.
religious texts · print · body text
Bona Nova
A contemporary old-style serif (from a Polish news face) that also ships Hebrew. Use it for editorial text where Latin and Hebrew must share one serif.
body text · print · headlines
Cascadia Code
Microsoft’s open coding family, with Hebrew among its scripts and optional ligatures. Use it for editors, terminals, and code samples that mix Hebrew comments with Latin code.
website UI
Handjet
A modular, element-grid display family with Hebrew in a large multi-script set. Use it for experimental headlines and pixel-like posters.
headlines · signage
Libertinus Serif
An open fork of Linux Libertine with Hebrew among its scholarly scripts. Use it for papers and books that already sit in Libertinus Latin and Greek.
body text · print · religious texts
Solitreo
A revival of Solitreo, the Sephardic cursive used in Ladino and some historical Hebrew hands. Use it for Ladino pedagogy and historical notes, not for modern Israeli print.
handwriting practice · print
Lunasima
An open document-repair sans with Hebrew, meant to stand in when a file’s original sans is missing. Use it for recovered PDFs, generic body copy, and unbranded UI.
body text · print · website UI
Frank-Rühl
The classic early-twentieth-century Hebrew book face, still the default look of much printed Hebrew (Windows ships a cut as FrankRuehl). Use it for books, newspapers, and any text that should feel like “ordinary Hebrew print.”
body text · print · religious texts · tattoos
David
Ismar David’s mid-century Israeli text serif, familiar from Windows as David and from decades of Israeli print. Use it for body copy that should look locally “standard,” and for small, readable lettering.
body text · print · tattoos
Hadassah
Henri Friedlaender’s book face for the Israeli press and Bible work, with a humanist Hebrew structure. Use it for literary print and editions that want a mid-century Israeli text colour.
body text · print · religious texts
Narkisim
A Windows-bundled cut of Zvi Narkis’s text work, one of the default “Israeli serif” looks on desktop systems. Use it in office documents and print that already live on Windows Hebrew.
body text · print
Narkis Block
Zvi Narkis’s sturdy sans, long used on Israeli signs, covers, and official print. Use it for wayfinding, titles, and any Hebrew that must read at a distance.
signage · headlines · print
Miriam
The classic Israeli sans shipped with Windows as Miriam, a workaday gothic for documents and older web stacks. Use it only when you control the system font list, or switch to Miriam Libre on the web.
website UI · body text · print
Aharoni
A bold, dark Hebrew display gothic familiar from Windows (often Aharoni Bold). Use it for short titles, stickers, and heavy lettering that must stay simple.
headlines · signage · tattoos
Koren
The type cut for the Koren Bible, with distinctive letterforms meant for pointed Tanakh pages. Use it when the brief is that specific Bible look, under a Koren licence.
religious texts · print · tattoos
Vilna
The square Hebrew associated with the Vilna Talmud and later yeshiva reprints, a dense, traditional book colour. Use a licensed digital Vilna when setting Gemara-style pages.
religious texts · print
Stam / Ktav Ashuri
The square scribal hand used in Torah, tefillin, and mezuzot, with tagin on certain letters. Use a sofer-trained digital Stam only when the brief is that sacred-scroll look.
religious texts · tattoos
Rashi script
The semi-cursive type used since early Hebrew printing for Rashi and other commentaries beside a square body. Use it for commentary columns; Noto Rashi Hebrew is the open digital option.
religious texts · print · tattoos
Almoni
A workhorse Israeli sans (Almoni DL, Tzar, and related widths) used on countless Hebrew sites and in print. Use it for UI and news when you can licence Fontbit’s files.
website UI · body text · signage
Fedra Hebrew
Typotheque’s Hebrew for the Fedra system, drawn to sit with Fedra Sans and Serif. Use it for editorial sites and identity work that already uses Fedra Latin.
website UI · body text · print
Greta Hebrew
Typotheque’s Hebrew for the Greta news and identity system. Use it when a publication already runs Greta Sans or Greta Text in Latin.
body text · print · website UI · headlines
Ploni
A geometric Hebrew-and-Latin sans released under the OFL, often used as a free stand-in for commercial Israeli grotesques. Use it for UI and simple brand work when you need an open licence.
website UI · body text · headlines
Ezra SIL
A biblical Hebrew serif from SIL with nikud and cantillation designed for scripture encoding. Use it for Tanakh, critical text, and any page that needs reliable taamim.
religious texts · print · body text
SBL Hebrew
The Society of Biblical Literature’s Hebrew text face, built for pointed biblical and scholarly work. Use it in papers and editions under the SBL font licence.
religious texts · print · body text
Arial Hebrew
Microsoft’s Hebrew for Arial, still the fallback on many desktops. Use it only as a system fallback, not as a designed webfont choice.
website UI · body text · print
Gisha
A Windows Hebrew UI sans used in older Microsoft interfaces. Use it only when targeting that system stack.
website UI · body text
Drugulin
A nineteenth-century heavy Hebrew display style associated with the Drugulin foundry and old posters. Use a clearly licensed digital cut for historical headlines and Yiddish/Hebrew ephemera.
headlines · print · signage
Dana Yad
A familiar Israeli handwriting face used for informal print, worksheets, and invitations. Use it when you want contemporary Hebrew script rather than school cursive or Solitreo.
handwriting practice · headlines · print
Simple CLM
Culmus’s open take on the classic Israeli Simple sans. Use it for basic UI and documents when you can ship Culmus files under their GPL-with-font-exception terms.
website UI · body text · signage
Hadasim CLM
A Culmus text serif inspired by Friedlaender’s Hadassah. Use it as a free book face when you cannot licence original Hadassah.
body text · print · religious texts
Stam Ashkenaz CLM
Culmus’s Ashkenaz Stam (square scribal) digitization for educational and print use. Use it when you need an open Stam-like square Hebrew and can accept the Culmus licence.
religious texts
Taamey Frank CLM
A Culmus Frank-Rühl-style text face with cantillation (taamim) coverage. Use it for pointed Tanakh samples when you need an open file with marks.
religious texts · print · body text
The rules Hebrew type follows
Hebrew type does not borrow Latin habits. Lines need more leading than English text at the same size, because vowel points and the square letterforms sit closer to full height than Latin ascenders and descenders. There is no italic in the Latin sense: a slanted square letter reads as a mistake, not as emphasis, so Hebrew designers lean on weight or a different face for contrast instead.
Uppercase does not exist, so "shouting" a headline means going bold or going large, not switching case. Pairing Hebrew with Latin only works when the two scripts share weight and x-height; a heavy Hebrew next to a thin Latin (or the reverse) reads as two different websites glued together. And a real fallback matters more than in Latin-only work: a browser that cannot find Hebrew glyphs in your chosen family will silently substitute a system font, which is often the wrong weight and sometimes the wrong period style entirely.
Guides by use case
Hebrew fonts for websites
Screen-first families that keep Hebrew readable at UI sizes and in mixed Hebrew–English layouts.
Hebrew for tattoos
Tattoo lettering is permanent, so the brief is correct spelling, final letters, and a shape that still reads as Hebrew on skin.
Handwriting and informal Hebrew
Faces that mimic pen, marker, or school cursive, for notes, kids’ material, invitations, and practice sheets.
Hebrew for religious texts
Square, Rashi, and biblical faces for Tanakh, commentary, and liturgical pages, not for app chrome.
Hebrew on Google Fonts
Families in the Google Fonts catalogue that declare a Hebrew subset, so you can link them without a foundry contract.
Free and open Hebrew fonts
Families you can use without a commercial foundry invoice: mostly OFL, plus a few other open or free-use licences.
Hebrew fonts that handle nikud
Vowel points and cantillation need mark positioning. Many display and UI faces only draw the consonants.
Pairing Hebrew with Latin
Bilingual pages hold together when the two scripts share weight, x-height, and a designer’s intent, not when the browser mixes Arial Hebrew with a display Latin.