Heebo
Heebo takes Roboto's Latin — the letterforms Android has been rendering since 2011 — and extends them into Hebrew, drawn by Oded Ezer in Tel Aviv. The Hebrew is the primary design rather than an addition, which is why its vertical metrics are set for Hebrew and differ from Roboto's own. If you are setting the two scripts together and want them to look like one typeface rather than two that happen to share a page, this is the family that was actually built for it.
Alphabets
- Latin
- Latin Extendedaccented characters for most European languages
- Turkishincluding ı, İ, ğ, ş and the rest
- 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: 'Heebo';
/* 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/heebo.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 100 900;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Heebo', 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 Heebo free for commercial use?
- Yes. Heebo 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 Heebo in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Heebo belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Oded Ezer. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Heebo?
- 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. Heebo is a variable font: the single file carries all 9 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 9 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
- Does Heebo support Turkish?
- Yes. Heebo 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 Heebo support Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Hebrew?
- Yes. Heebo covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Hebrew, across 591 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.
- Is Heebo the same as Roboto?
- The Latin is. Heebo uses Christian Robertson's Roboto letterforms and adds a Hebrew design by Oded Ezer, so a line of English set in the two looks identical. They are not interchangeable, though. Because the Hebrew is the lead design here, Heebo's vertical metrics are set for Hebrew and differ from Roboto's, which means swapping one for the other can change line spacing. Heebo is also auto-hinted where Roboto is hand-hinted, so Roboto may still render more crisply on older Windows machines. Use Heebo when Hebrew is involved, and Roboto when it is not.