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Ezra SIL is a typeface fashioned after the square letter forms of the typography of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS), a beautiful Old Testament volume familiar to Biblical Hebrew scholars. The font supports the Hebrew and Latin-1 characters from Unicode 5.0.
This is an OpenType "smart" font, designed to work with Office 2003 and above in any application that uses OpenType fonts. It may also work with certain applications in Macintosh OS X and Linux (Debian and Ubuntu). The font follows the recommendations for character order and encoding determined by a group of font developers during discussions in May 2003; this does not follow canonical order. Texts which have been converted to NFC or NFD canonical order will not display correctly with these fonts.
There are two fonts included in the download package. Both contain the basic set of Unicode characters needed for Biblical Hebrew texts but with different styles of cantillation.
Ezra SIL is freely available and may be used by anyone at no cost. It is released under the SIL Open Font License, a free and open source license that permits modification and redistribution.
