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Paleo-Hebrew Fonts

Kris J. Udd has created a beautiful collection of fonts that imitate the writing styles of ancientscribes in a series of important ancient Semitic texts.

Click on the graphic to download a full comparison chart (pdf)

For free download:

All 22 Fonts

Paleo-Hebrew Yavneh Yam (7th c.)

Proto-Sinaitic (15th c.) Hebrew seals (7th c.)

Proto-Sinaitic (13th c.) Ketef Hinnom 1 (7th c.)

Izbet Sartah (13th c.) Ketef Hinnom 2 (7th c.)

Ugaritic (13th c.) Lachish Letter 3 (6th c.)

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Siloam Inscription

Tell Zayit (10th c.) Lachish Letter 4 (6th c.)

Gezer Calendar (10th c.) Lachish Letter 5 (6th c.)

Tel Dan Inscription (9th c.) Ivory Pomegranate (6th c.)

Moabite Stone (9th c.) Isaiah Scroll (2nd c.)

Samaria Ostraca (8th c.) Nabatean (1st c.)

Siloam Inscription (7th c.) Samaritan (13th c. AD)

For ancient Greek fonts, see this page.

These fonts follow the basic key-mapping of the BibleWorks Hebrew font, with a fewexceptions. Since the Masoretic text does not use word dividers, and many ancient Hebrewinscriptions do, the "period" key has been used for the word divider dot, both upper and lowercase. Also, since many ancient inscriptions have missing text, the bracket keys (upper case "9"and "0") have been used for brackets so that reconstructed text can be set off from certaintext.

Each letter appears on the appropriate key both in the lower and upper case. A balance hasbeen sought between using the letter forms most common to a particular inscription andshowing the variety of letter forms that appear in it. In some cases this has proven particularlydifficult due to the number of letters and shapes employed by an ancient scribe. Letters that donot occur in an inscription have usually been reconstructed in hollow letter form to set them off.

If you have questions or suggestions for improving these fonts,you may contact the author at krisudd at gmail.com (replace "at"with @).

Installation Instructions

How to install the fonts in Windows (or see these instructions from Microsoft):

1. Download the fonts into the C:\Windows directory. If you download the Zip files, use adecompression utility like WinZip or 7-Zip to extract the fonts to the C:\Windows directory.

2. Click on the "Start" button, then "Settings" and select "Control Panel." Double click the"Fonts" icon. You will be in C:\Windows\Fonts and see all your fonts. Click on "File," then "Install

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New Font." You should see the fonts you just put in the C:\Windows directory. Highlight thosefonts and click OK.

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These fonts are copyrighted by Kris J. Udd and may be distributed free of charge for personal oreducational use. They may not be used for profit or for any other purpose without writtenpermission.