What Greek and Hebrew Fonts do you use?

Phil Gons (Logos)
Phil Gons (Logos) Administrator, Logos Employee Posts: 3,803
edited November 2024 in English Forum

We're updating our white lists of Greek and Hebrew fonts that show up in the drop-down menu in the settings panel.

  1. What fonts do you use for Greek and Hebrew?
  2. 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:

  1. Arial Unicode MS
  2. Brill
  3. Galatia SIL
  4. Gentium
  5. Gentium Plus
  6. GentiumAlt
  7. GFS Decker
  8. GFS DidotClassic
  9. GFS Goschen
  10. GFS Philostratos
  11. GFS Solomos
  12. GFS Porson
  13. KadmosU
  14. Noto Sans
  15. Noto Serif
  16. Palatino Linotype
  17. SBL BibLit
  18. SBL Greek
  19. Skolar Logos
  20. Skolar PE

Here's our current Hebrew white list:

  1. Ezra SIL
  2. Ezra SIL SR
  3. Keter Aram Tsova
  4. Keter YG
  5. SBL BibLit
  6. SBL Hebrew
  7. Shofar
  8. Taamey Ashkenaz
  9. Taamey David CLM
  10. Taamey Frank CLM

Thanks!

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,193

    Greek - Gentium (has always suited me)

    Hebrew - SBL Hebrew (has always suited me)

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  • John Kight
    John Kight Member Posts: 1,619 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885429#Comment_885429

    Dave Hooton said:

    Greek - Gentium (has always suited me)

    Hebrew - SBL Hebrew (has always suited me)

    Ditto

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  • Claude Brown Jr
    Claude Brown Jr Member Posts: 322 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885442#Comment_885442

    SBL Greek

    SBL Hebrew

  • Rich DeRuiter
    Rich DeRuiter MVP Posts: 6,729


    Greek: Default (whichever that is)

    Hebrew: SBL Hebrew

    Also (also important?),
    Greek Transliteration: SBL Greek
    Hebrew Transliteration: SBL Academic

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  • Veli Voipio
    Veli Voipio MVP Posts: 2,077

    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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  • Matthew
    Matthew Member Posts: 941 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885452#Comment_885452

    +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.

  • Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)
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    Phil Gons (Faithlife) said:

    What fonts do you use for Greek and Hebrew?

    SBL BibLit

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  • Beloved Amodeo
    Beloved Amodeo Member Posts: 4,218 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885509#Comment_885509

    Guess I too am a Gentium SBL Hebrew kinda guy[:)]

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  • Jack Caviness
    Jack Caviness MVP Posts: 13,614

    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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  • Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)
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    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885540#Comment_885540

    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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  • Kevin Olson
    Kevin Olson Member Posts: 64 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885549#Comment_885549

    Galatia SIL

    Ezra SIL

  • Jack Hairston
    Jack Hairston Member Posts: 1,095 ✭✭✭

    SBL Greek

    SBL Hebrew

  • Mark Barnes
    Mark Barnes Member Posts: 15,432 ✭✭✭

    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
    • 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
    • Google
      • Arimo
      • Caudex
      • Cousine
      • Didact Gothic
      • Fira (various families)
      • Tinos
      • Ubuntu (various families)

    Then in Hebrew you have:

    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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  • Alan Macgregor
    Alan Macgregor Member Posts: 2,438 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885633#Comment_885633

    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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  • Adam Olean
    Adam Olean Member Posts: 449 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885460#Comment_885460

    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

  • Adam Olean
    Adam Olean Member Posts: 449 ✭✭

    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.

  • Stephen Miller
    Stephen Miller Member Posts: 432 ✭✭

    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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  • David Thomas
    David Thomas Member Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭

    Phil Gons (Faithlife) said:

    What fonts do you use for Greek and Hebrew?

    Greek - Default

    Hebrew - Ezra SIL

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  • Matthew
    Matthew Member Posts: 99 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885874#Comment_885874

    Greek - Gentium

    Hebrew - SBL

    Would also love to see a Paleo Hebrew font. Here's a website that has paleo fonts:

    http://www.bibleplaces.com/paleo_hebrew_fonts/

  • James Burnett
    James Burnett Member Posts: 58 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885460#Comment_885460

    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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  • Veli Voipio
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    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/973846#Comment_973846

    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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