Thursday, August 25, 2016

Finding & Installing Hebrew Fonts on a PC

New classroom this year, which means I need to install, once again, some useful fonts on my computer (especially Rashi).

Downloading

The best place for free Hebrew fonts (and more than you can ever want or use) is The Open Siddur Project.

Download the fonts-master.zip file (I have a Fonts folder in my Download folder) and right-click it and choose Unzip. The Rashi font is called Mekorot Rashi.

For a look at all the fonts, open this .pdf

Installing

Once the fonts are unzipped, just right-click the font you want to install and choose INSTALL.

Or you can drag the fonts from their folders in Windows Explorer into the Fonts folder and Windows will install the fonts..
(Open up the fonts folder from the Control Panel or Search for Fonts in the search box when you click on the start menu [the little Windows symbol in the bottom left of your screen])

If you can't find the font you saw on the comparison chart (link above) just search the folder in which you opened the file.

3 comments:

  1. I maintain the font pack and update the catalogue (PDF). You can correct the broken link to the catalogue with this link where we keep the PDF up-to-date:

    https://archive.org/details/OpenSiddurProjectOpenSourceUnicodeHebrewFontPackCatalogue

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