The Culmus Project
I have always been wondering who are the people who
draw letters. Now I know they are mathematicians.
K. Shagin
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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 nine font families of different
styles. My immediate effort will be concentrated at completing my
master
thesis. Later I will try to add some more fonts.
Release Notes:
This is a bugfix release aimed at the infamous "tet" bug in Nachlieli. It fixes this bug, and also
similar bugs in some other fonts.
Changes:
- Tet bug fixed in Ellinia CLM Light, David CLM Bold, Miriam Mono CLM Bold, Miriam Mono CLM Bold
Oblique, Nachlieli CLM Light, Nachlieli CLM Light Oblique.
Specifications and standards:
Unicode
Hebrew
(0590-05FF)
Unicode
Alphabetic Presentation Forms (FB00-FB4F)
Unicode Basic
Latin (0020-007F)
Unicode Currency
(20A0-20CF)
Microsoft
Hebrew OpenType Recommendations
Mailing Lists:
There is a mailing list available at the project:
Acknowledgements:
I'd like to thank:
- George Williams for his
FontForge
, the ultimate tool for font design.
- Sivan Toledo for thorough review and enlightening
discussions on various aspects of font design.
- Gilad Barkai, David Nashtir and Alon Hadad
for their valuable comments on the visual aspects of the fonts.
- Tzafrir Cohen for creating and maintaining the RPM
package
script.
- Mrs. Michaela Zonnenshain for her words of
encouragement and for providing me with an article on the history of
Hebrew typefaces.
- Baruch Even for creating and maintaining the Debian
package.
- Yotam Medini for creating and maintaining the Ivritex/Linux
package.
- Yonatan Bokovza for creating and maintaining the FreeBSD package.
- Meir Kriheli for creating the ebuild for Gentoo users.
- Ron Artstein for opening my eyes towards the miracles of
punctuation.
- Ido Admon for creating the OpenBSD package.
- Dovix for creating and maintaining the Mandrake package.
License
The entire package of fonts is distributed under the terms of GNU General
Public License version 2. These fonts contain parts created by
various entities, see the LICENSE file inside the tarball or among the
accompanying documentation files.
Contact
For all questions regarding the project please contact Maxim
Iorsh (מקסים יורש).