Assistant
Assistant is a Hebrew face built to sit beside Source Sans, Adobe's open humanist sans, so a bilingual page can carry both scripts without either looking borrowed from somewhere else. Ben Nathan drew the Hebrew; the Latin comes from Paul Hunt's original at Adobe. The Hebrew itself is contemporary rather than traditional — squared off, low in contrast, and comfortable at the small sizes where an older Hebrew face fills in and goes muddy.
Alphabets
- Latin
- Latin Extendedaccented characters for most European languages
- Hebrew
Weight — 400
Specification
- Designer
- Foundry
- Released
- Category
- License
- Commercial use
- Good for
- Weights
- Styles
- Variable
- Glyphs
- Languages
- Download size
- Source
Size ladder
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Characters
Uppercase
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Lowercase
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- u
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
Numerals
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
Punctuation & symbols
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- †
- •
- …
Use it on the web
@font-face {
font-family: 'Assistant';
/* The download contains .ttf files. Put yours wherever you serve static
files from and point this at it. Converting to .woff2 first cuts the
size by roughly 60% and every current browser supports it. */
src: url('/fonts/assistant.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 200 800;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Assistant', sans-serif;
}License
OFL-1.1
You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.
Commercial use allowed
Questions
- Is Assistant free for commercial use?
- Yes. Assistant is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.
- Can I use Assistant in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Assistant belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Adobe Systems Inc., Ben Nathan. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Assistant?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 1 font file inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up. Assistant is a variable font: the single file carries all 7 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — only reads the first weight and will show it as Regular. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 7 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
- Does Assistant support Turkish?
- No. Assistant covers Latin, but not the extra characters Turkish needs — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ and ş. Turkish text set in it would come out with missing or wrong letters.
- Does Assistant support Latin, Latin Extended and Hebrew?
- Yes. Assistant covers Latin, Latin Extended and Hebrew, across 547 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.