Frank Ruhl Libre
A free alternative to Frank Ruehl
The Hebrew face most Israeli books and newspapers are set in, released under an open licence. Rafael Frank drew the original in Leipzig in 1908 and it has been the default for Hebrew text ever since, in the way Times was for English. What is here is a modern interpretation with a Latin companion drawn to sit beside it at the same colour, so a bilingual page does not read as two typefaces having an argument. Seven weights in one file.
Alphabets
- Latin
- Latin Extendedaccented characters for most European languages
- Turkishincluding ı, İ, ğ, ş and the rest
- Hebrew
Style
Weight — 400
Specification
- Designer
- Yanek Iontef
- Released
- 2015
- Category
- Serif
- Alternative to
- Frank Ruehl
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Hebrew body text, Books, Editorial, Long-form reading
- Weights
- 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
- Styles
- Normal
- Variable
- Yes
- Glyphs
- 604
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Hebrew
- Download size
- 94 KB
Size ladder
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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: 'Frank Ruhl Libre';
/* 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/frank-ruhl-libre.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 300 900;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Frank Ruhl Libre', 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 Frank Ruhl Libre free for commercial use?
- Yes. Frank Ruhl Libre 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 Frank Ruhl Libre in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Frank Ruhl Libre belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Yanek Iontef. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Frank Ruhl Libre?
- 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. Frank Ruhl Libre is a variable font: the single file carries all 7 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — reads only the one weight the file defaults to, and for Frank Ruhl Libre that is the regular weight. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 7 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
- Does Frank Ruhl Libre support Turkish?
- Yes. Frank Ruhl Libre includes the characters Turkish needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.
- Does Frank Ruhl Libre support Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Hebrew?
- Yes. Frank Ruhl Libre covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Hebrew, across 604 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.