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Comments on a better Hebrew font for post titles
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a better Hebrew font for post titles
I guess this is more personal preference than anything else, but I think Hebrew in the post titles in the Q&A category uses quite an ugly font.
The code seems to be
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6{
font-family:
"Red Hat Display",
"Roboto",
"Helvetica Neue",
"Helvetica",
"Arial",
sans-serif
}
I don't know which of those my browser is using (and if it's the fallback sans-serif then I have only myself to blame and you can ignore this post), but the question title comes out looking like1
The thin, very rounded top of the ר (rightmost letter) near the thicker, squared-off ד (second letter from the right) is unappealing, as is the two letters' proximity to one another. Contrast the font used in the post body,
which is neater. Note also that the horizontal lines of the kamatz and patach vowels (which are beneath the rightmost two letters in the title screenshot above) are very thin and close to the letters, which is perhaps a more objective objection.
(For what it's worth, I see an eight-year-old description of how to use a different font for Hebrew than for the rest of the site.)
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Examples taken from https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276676. ↩
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