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Meta 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-fa...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

#3: Post edited by user avatar ArtOfCode‭ · 2020-07-09T16:01:02Z (over 4 years ago)
#2: Post edited by user avatar Isaac Moses‭ · 2020-07-09T12:47:43Z (over 4 years ago)
Added link to example source, so readers can check on their own browsers. Added alt text for the images.
  • 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 like
  • > ![](https://judaism.codidact.com/uploads/jWd974Ti4HwJRbuSi72BQeM7)
  • 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,
  • > ![](https://judaism.codidact.com/uploads/nB98sxpBuyoJC8ikHwF5zGcn)
  • 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](http://24ways.org/2011/creating-custom-font-stacks-with-unicode-range/).)
  • 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 like[^1]
  • > ![Question title, including Hebrew letters](https://judaism.codidact.com/uploads/jWd974Ti4HwJRbuSi72BQeM7)
  • 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,
  • > ![Excerpt of a question body, including Hebrew letters](https://judaism.codidact.com/uploads/nB98sxpBuyoJC8ikHwF5zGcn)
  • 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](http://24ways.org/2011/creating-custom-font-stacks-with-unicode-range/).)
  • [^1]: Examples taken from https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276676.
#1: Initial revision by user avatar msh210‭ · 2020-07-09T12:39:12Z (over 4 years ago)
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 like

> ![](https://judaism.codidact.com/uploads/jWd974Ti4HwJRbuSi72BQeM7)

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,

> ![](https://judaism.codidact.com/uploads/nB98sxpBuyoJC8ikHwF5zGcn)

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](http://24ways.org/2011/creating-custom-font-stacks-with-unicode-range/).)