What Greek and Hebrew Fonts do you use?

Phil Gons (Logos)

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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Dave Hooton

Greek - Gentium (has always suited me)

Hebrew - SBL Hebrew (has always suited me)

John Kight

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885429#Comment_885429

Greek - Gentium (has always suited me)

Hebrew - SBL Hebrew (has always suited me)

Ditto

Claude Brown Jr

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885442#Comment_885442

SBL Greek

SBL Hebrew

Rich DeRuiter

Greek: Default (whichever that is)

Hebrew: SBL Hebrew

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

Veli Voipio

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!

Matthew

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 :)

What fonts do you use for Greek and Hebrew?

SBL BibLit

Keep Smiling [:)]

Beloved Amodeo

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885509#Comment_885509

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

Jack Caviness

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)

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885540#Comment_885540

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.

Keep Smiling [:)]

Kevin Olson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885549#Comment_885549

Galatia SIL

Ezra SIL

Jack Hairston

SBL Greek

SBL Hebrew

Mark Barnes

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

Google

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.

Alan Macgregor

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.

Every blessing

Alan

Adam Olean

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885460#Comment_885460

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

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

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.

Stephen Miller

Australia

David Thomas

What fonts do you use for Greek and Hebrew?

Greek - Default

Hebrew - Ezra SIL

Matthew

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

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885460#Comment_885460

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!

Veli Voipio

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

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.