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.
# 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.htmlThe 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.
Solid, neutral workhorses for body copy, UI, and documents.
Steve Matteson
Steve Matteson
A bit more personality — for headlines, marketing, friendly UIs.
Oded Ezer (based on Christian Robertson's Roboto)
Coji Morishita (M+ Fonts Project)
Milena Brandão (Hebrew extension by Hafontia)
HaTypo
Serifs and classical faces suitable for prayer books, formal documents, long-form Hebrew/English bilingual text.
Yanek Iontef, Michal Sahar (after Raphael Frank's Frank-Ruehl, 1908)
Steve Matteson
David J. Perry
AlefAlefAlef Type Foundry
Juan Bruce
Laura Meseguer, TypeTogether
High legibility, generous proportions — good for accessibility-conscious work.
Mushon Zer-Aviv, HaGilda
HaTypo
Daniel Grumer
Display-only — posters, social, branding moments.
Natalia Raices (Rubik series by Philipp Hubert & Sebastian Fischer; Hebrew by Meir Sadan)
Natalia Raices
Natalia Raices
Natalia Raices
Rosetta Type Foundry (David Březina et al.)
Natalia Raices
Natalia Raices
Natalia Raices
Google / Monotype (Noto project)
Khaled Hosny (based on Philipp H. Poll's Linux Libertine)
Michal Sahar (after Henri Friedlaender's Miriam)
Yoram Gnat (after Ismar David's David)
Microsoft (Aaron Bell et al.; Hebrew by Liron Lavi Turkenich)
Google / Monotype (Noto project)
For an in-browser preview rendered via the Google Fonts CDN (no install required), open samples.html.
- 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
- BiblePlaces — Paleo Hebrew Fonts — ancient/biblical script
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.
- 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
- bdenckla/Taamey_D — Taamey D, Tanakh-cantillation typesetting
- edenberger/Robo-PaleoHeb — Robo Paleo-Hebrew
- Culmus/hebrew-fonts — Culmus project, classic free Hebrew fonts
- voidksa/RTL-Flow
- noambrand/kivun-terminal-wsl — RTL terminal helper for WSL
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.