The internet has plenty of free fonts to offer. These fonts are distributed for free, for a variety of reasons, such as: beginner designers who designed the fonts as part of a learning process, a commercial company or organization funded the creation of a free font, or designers who decided to distribute a typeface or weight for free as a method to market their other paid fonts.
Every font, and that includes free fonts, has an End User License Agreement (EULA), and it is very important to learn what type of things may or may not be done with a font. Although usage of the font is free, its copyright and distribution rights will often belong to the designer of the font. As a rule of thumb, if it doesn’t explicitly say you may use the font in the way you intend on using the font – don’t do it. Or simply contact that designer and ask them.
While most of our fonts are paid, we do have an entire section of free Hebrew fonts – experimental fonts, selected weights of existing fonts and fonts that may be downloaded for free for a limited time, so you should definitely bookmark this page and drop by every once in awhile.
Anyway, back to business: we’ve decided to organize all of the free fonts that are available out there, and selected the best ones in our opinion.
Open Sans Hebrew
A Latin font that comes in four weights plus italic, including Hebrew letters. Designed by Yanek Iontef.
Alef
This bilingual web font has two weights and was developed by Mushon Zer Aviv, Michal Sahar, Danny Meirav and Nir Yenni, and funded by the Israel Internet Association.
Varela Round
An Alefalefalef freebie: A rounded font available for download on Google Fonts. This bilingual (Hebrew and English) font has a young, fun look. This font maintains its quality in every text size – whether for large display titles or small text, Varela Round is fully compatible with both print and digital display. The Hebrew letters were designed by Avraham Cornfeld and the English letters were designed by Joe Prince.
Yiddishkeit
An Alefalefalef freebie: This rough classical display typeface was inspired by the titles of 1940’s Yiddish newspapers printed in movable type. The original font was designed in 19th century Eastern Europe, and is a narrow variation of square Ashkenazi fonts of the Drogo-Vilna style.
Carmela
Designed by Nir Yenny for his Bezalel Academy graduate project. Available in regular weight only.
Carmelit
Amos Jerbi based Carmelit on the Carmela typeface in order to create a new font in two weights.
Noot
This fun typeface was designed by Amos Jerbi for his animation graduate project at Shenkar College.
A large directory of free fonts
The Freefonts project has a directory of free Hebrew fonts available for download.