The Culmus ProjectI have always been wondering who are the people who
draw letters. Now I know they are mathematicians.
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The Culmus project aims at providing the Hebrew-speaking GNU/Linux and Unix community with a basic collection of Hebrew fonts for X Windows.
Presently the collection contains fifteen font families of different styles. I hope to add more fonts, as the time comes.
Major refactoring of the existing fonts. Added romanization characters.
Changes: Unicode
Hebrew
(0590-05FF)
Unicode
Alphabetic Presentation Forms (FB00-FB4F)
Unicode Basic
Latin (0020-007F)
Unicode Currency
(20A0-20CF)
Microsoft
Hebrew OpenType Recommendations
Also, many thanks to Aharon Varady, the head of the Open Siddur project for his numerous contributions, suggestions for improvement and insightful comments about the fonts.
This section is provided for informational purposes only. The legal status of each font is governed solely by the copyright notice inside it.
The fonts are distributed under the terms of GNU General Public License version 2, some of them with embedding exception.
Some of the fonts contain parts created by various entities, see the LICENSE file inside the relevant tarball or among the accompanying documentation files.
Hebrew cantillation marks OpenType layout logic copyright (c) 2003 & 2007, Ralph Hancock and John Hudson. This layout logic for Biblical Hebrew is open source software under the MIT License; for details contact copyright holders at Tiro.
For all questions regarding the project please contact Maxim Iorsh (מקסים יורש).