What Greek and Hebrew Fonts do you use?
We're updating our white lists of Greek and Hebrew fonts that show up in the drop-down menu in the settings panel.
- What fonts do you use for Greek and Hebrew?
- Are there any fonts you'd like to see added to the white lists? We're only interested in adding fonts that have full support for all the characters needed for biblical Greek and Hebrew.
Here's our current Greek white list:
- Arial Unicode MS
- Brill
- Galatia SIL
- Gentium
- Gentium Plus
- GentiumAlt
- GFS Decker
- GFS DidotClassic
- GFS Goschen
- GFS Philostratos
- GFS Solomos
- GFS Porson
- KadmosU
- Noto Sans
- Noto Serif
- Palatino Linotype
- SBL BibLit
- SBL Greek
- Skolar Logos
- Skolar PE
Here's our current Hebrew white list:
- Ezra SIL
- Ezra SIL SR
- Keter Aram Tsova
- Keter YG
- SBL BibLit
- SBL Hebrew
- Shofar
- Taamey Ashkenaz
- Taamey David CLM
- Taamey Frank CLM
Thanks!
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Greek - Gentium (has always suited me)
Hebrew - SBL Hebrew (has always suited me)
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Dave Hooton said:
Greek - Gentium (has always suited me)
Hebrew - SBL Hebrew (has always suited me)
Ditto
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SBL Greek
SBL Hebrew
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Greek: Default (whichever that is)Hebrew: SBL Hebrew
Also (also important?),
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Hebrew Transliteration: SBL AcademicHelp links: WIKI; Logos 6 FAQ. (Phil. 2:14, NIV)
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Phil Gons (Faithlife) said:
full support for all the characters
I have a different opinion and I use a font with a limited character set that drops off most diacritics etc.
At the same time I want to have an "ancient look" font with capital letters.
Probably no one agrees with me, but this is just food for thought, please enjoy!
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+1 more for Gentium and SBL Hebrew!
EDIT: I know I am in the minority, but I also REALLY like the Greek font used for the UBS 4th edition. Don't remember what it is called off the top of my head, but I don't believe it is legally available for free.
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Guess I too am a Gentium SBL Hebrew kinda guy[:)]
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Phil Gons (Faithlife) said:
What fonts do you use for Greek and Hebrew?
Greek = Gentium Plus
Hebrew = Ezra SIL (would use SBL Hebrew, but MS Word for Mac has never recognizde its existence)
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Jack Caviness said:
Hebrew = Ezra SIL (would use SBL Hebrew, but MS Word for Mac has never recognizde its existence)
Manually installed "SBL BibLit" font on Mac, which is usable in Word 2011 for English, Greek, Hebrew, and Latin.
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Galatia SIL
Ezra SIL
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SBL Greek
SBL Hebrew
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I always use Gentium.
I presume by whitelisting, you're talking about allowing us to choose fonts we have installed, rather than bundling additional fonts. Other fonts you should whitelist definitely include Cardo (Greek and Hebrew).
But there are dozens of other fonts that support Polytonic Greek (TypeKit lists 52 families), which you could certainly whitelist. Just from the major foundries:
- Microsoft
- Calibri
- Cambria
- Cambria Math
- Consolas
- Courier New (ugly, but it works)
- Garamond
- Microsoft Sans Serif
- Tahoma
- Times New Roman
- Adobe
- Adobe Text Pro
- Arno
- Garamond Premier Pro
- Hypatia Sans Pro
- Minion and Minion Pro
- Monotype
- Andale and WorldType (various Familes)
- Arial OS
- CampusRoman Pro
- Enyo Slab
- FF Elementa
- Figgins Sans
- Newton
- Parmenides
- Pragmatica
- Scotch Micro and Scotch Modern
- Sirba
- Arimo
- Caudex
- Cousine
- Didact Gothic
- Fira (various families)
- Tinos
- Ubuntu (various families)
Then in Hebrew you have:
- Microsoft
- Courier New
- Tahoma
- Times New Roman
- Monotype
- Andale and WorldType (various Familes)
- Arial OS
- David Hadash Biblical (also Formal, Sans and Script)
I suspect there's more than that. There's also the many free fonts from the Greek Font Society, of course.
Not all these fonts support marks such as ⸂, ⸀, ⸁, etc. I presume that's OK.
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I prefer reading Greek in Gentium. It is a nice clean font. Hebrew is more problematic. SBL Hebrew is alright but on balance I prefer Ezra SIL.
For academic writing I prefer Palatino Linotype.
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Veli Voipio said:Phil Gons (Faithlife) said:
full support for all the characters
I have a different opinion and I use a font with a limited character set that drops off most diacritics etc.
At the same time I want to have an "ancient look" font with capital letters.
Probably no one agrees with me, but this is just food for thought, please enjoy!
I agree! It would be great to have fonts that cover different scripts, such as those found in Proto-Hebrew, the Samaritan Pentateuch, even a Modern Hebrew "cursive" font, if one is available (to add a few examples to Veli's Greek Uncials). Paired with audio and knowledge of Greek and Hebrew, they can help anyone get up to speed in reading from facsimiles and actual images of manuscripts (MSS) and other inscriptions, which can be more difficult to initially practice on when many are aged, faded, and even fragmentary. Navigation of images can sometimes be slow and cumbersome as well, depending on the sources. It also allows one to practice while reading from various editions.
I've seen some lists of fonts but have to do more investigation myself (as to quality, standard, etc.). Unfortunately, there are some nice fonts that apparently still do not use Unicode.
https://brianwdavidson.com/blog/2012/07/26/free-unicode-hebrew-fonts
http://opensiddur.org/tools/fonts/
http://www.bibleplaces.com/paleo_hebrew_fonts/
http://www.bibleplaces.com/greek_fonts/
http://www.bibleplaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Paleo-Hebrew_Fonts_Chart_by_Kris_Udd.pdf
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Phil, in answer your first question, I tend to use SBL's fonts: SBL Greek, SBL Hebrew, and BibLit, and secondarily the SIL fonts. I've also used Gentium in the past, although it's been quite some time.
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SBL BibLit.
But while I have your attention .....
How about allowing RIGHT CLICK on resource word brings up FONT option. Clicking on this allows us to know what font is the default (What Logos is looking for) and a list of other recommended (and not recommended) fonts?
Sometimes I like to experiment (temporarily) with handwritten Hebrew fonts.
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Phil Gons (Faithlife) said:
What fonts do you use for Greek and Hebrew?
Greek - Default
Hebrew - Ezra SIL
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Greek - Gentium
Hebrew - SBL
Would also love to see a Paleo Hebrew font. Here's a website that has paleo fonts:
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Veli Voipio said:Phil Gons (Faithlife) said:
full support for all the characters
I have a different opinion and I use a font with a limited character set that drops off most diacritics etc.
At the same time I want to have an "ancient look" font with capital letters.
Probably no one agrees with me, but this is just food for thought, please enjoy!
How did you do this? I'd love to have the manuscript fonts for my NT!
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James said:
How did you do this?
I am using fonts from https://www.linguistsoftware.com/ntmssu.htm .
Mine is based on LS39LSU, adabted / tailor-made by Linguist's Software, so that is shows capital-only (also with lower case letters) with no diacritics.
I am happy with the font. It works reasonably well with most resources. I am not competent to say whether it is perfect, but it is good enough for me.
I feel diacritics are not necessary, although one of my friends strongly disagrees.
I paid about $100 extra for the tailoring. Since the tailoring is already done, you may be able to negotiate a better price.
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