Awesome Hebrew Fonts
April 27, 2026 · View on GitHub
A curated, point-in-time (April 2026) list of great Hebrew fonts available via Google Fonts.
Maintained by Daniel Rosehill. Opinions are my own — these are fonts I actually use or appreciate.
Author/designer credits below are best-effort and may simplify multi-designer projects (especially Hebrew script extensions of Latin originals). Each font's Google Fonts page is canonical.
Quick Start
# Interactive terminal menu
./install.sh
# Or non-interactively:
./install.sh --all # all curated fonts in this repo
./install.sh --all-hebrew # every Google Font with a Hebrew subset
./install.sh --category daily stylistic # one or more categories
./install.sh --font heebo alef # one or more font ids
./install.sh --list # show the curated list
./install.sh --dry-run --all # preview without downloading
# Graphical front-end (uses zenity or kdialog)
./gui.sh
# Live preview of every font in your browser
xdg-open samples.html
The data lives in fonts.json. The installer reads from there, downloads TTFs (Hebrew + Latin subsets) from the google-webfonts-helper API into ~/.local/share/fonts/google/<family>/, and refreshes the font cache.
Dependencies: bash, curl, unzip, jq. The GUI additionally uses zenity or kdialog.
Daily Drivers
Solid, neutral workhorses for body copy, UI, and documents.
Open Sans
Steve Matteson
Google Sans
Arimo
Steve Matteson
Stylistic
A bit more personality — for headlines, marketing, friendly UIs.
Heebo
Oded Ezer (based on Christian Robertson's Roboto)
M PLUS Rounded 1c
Coji Morishita (M+ Fonts Project)
Fredoka
Milena Brandão (Hebrew extension by Hafontia)
Suez One
HaTypo
Formal / Liturgical
Serifs and classical faces suitable for prayer books, formal documents, long-form Hebrew/English bilingual text.
Frank Ruhl Libre
Yanek Iontef, Michal Sahar (after Raphael Frank's Frank-Ruehl, 1908)
Tinos
Steve Matteson
Cardo
David J. Perry
Cursive / Handwriting
Gveret Levin
AlefAlefAlef Type Foundry
Solitreo
Juan Bruce
Playpen Sans Hebrew
Laura Meseguer, TypeTogether
Easy to Read
High legibility, generous proportions — good for accessibility-conscious work.
Alef
Mushon Zer-Aviv, HaGilda
Secular One
HaTypo
Bellefair
Daniel Grumer
Creative & Effects
Display-only — posters, social, branding moments.
Rubik Gemstones
Natalia Raices (Rubik series by Philipp Hubert & Sebastian Fischer; Hebrew by Meir Sadan)
Rubik Wet Paint
Natalia Raices
Rubik Dirt
Natalia Raices
Rubik Glitch
Natalia Raices
Handjet
Rosetta Type Foundry (David Březina et al.)
Rubik Iso
Natalia Raices
Rubik Moonrocks
Natalia Raices
Stencil
Rubik Doodle Shadow
Natalia Raices
Serif
Noto Serif Hebrew
Google / Monotype (Noto project)
Libertinus Serif
Khaled Hosny (based on Philipp H. Poll's Linux Libertine)
Nice (general purpose, slightly characterful)
Miriam Libre
Michal Sahar (after Henri Friedlaender's Miriam)
David Libre
Yoram Gnat (after Ismar David's David)
Code / Monospace
Cascadia Code
Microsoft (Aaron Bell et al.; Hebrew by Liron Lavi Turkenich)
Rashi Script
Noto Rashi Hebrew
Google / Monotype (Noto project)
Live Samples
For an in-browser preview rendered via the Google Fonts CDN (no install required), open samples.html.
Beyond Google Fonts — Other Resources
Free Hebrew font collections
- FreeFonts.co.il
- HebrewFont.net
- Alef Alef Alef
- HebrewFonts.net
- Open Siddur — Fonts — liturgical-grade open-licensed Hebrew fonts
- FontMeme — Hebrew Fonts Collection
- Adobe Hebrew (Adobe Fonts) — included with Creative Cloud
- Otzar Fonts — fonts curated for Jewish/Torah typesetting
Paid collections / foundries
Paleo Hebrew
- BiblePlaces — Paleo Hebrew Fonts — ancient/biblical script
Open Source Hebrew Fonts on GitHub
Individual font sources and Hebrew-typography projects worth knowing about. These aren't (all) on Google Fonts, so the installer doesn't fetch them automatically — clone and install manually if you need them.
Fonts
- OdedEzer/heebo — upstream source for Heebo
- opensiddur/fonts — liturgical/Open Siddur font collection
- AlefAlefAlef/gveret-levin — Gveret Levin handwriting
- googlefonts/mekorot — Mekorot, designed for layered Hebrew texts
- gsshab/OpenSansHebrew — Open Sans Hebrew variant
- hafontia-zz/Amatica-sc — Amatica SC
- ibleaman/Keter-YG — Keter-YG (Yiddish/Hebrew)
- arielagor/jetbrains-mono-hebrew — JetBrains Mono with Hebrew glyphs
Biblical
- bdenckla/Taamey_D — Taamey D, Tanakh-cantillation typesetting
Paleo Hebrew
- edenberger/Robo-PaleoHeb — Robo Paleo-Hebrew
Resources / collections
- Culmus/hebrew-fonts — Culmus project, classic free Hebrew fonts
Utilities
RTL utilities
- voidksa/RTL-Flow
- noambrand/kivun-terminal-wsl — RTL terminal helper for WSL
License
The font list, README, and installer are released under CC0. The fonts themselves are licensed by their respective authors (mostly OFL or Apache 2.0) — see each font's Google Fonts page.