Heebo

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Specification

Designer

Oded Ezer

Released

2016

Category

Sans-serif

License

OFL-1.1

Commercial use

Allowed

Good for

Hebrew text, User interfaces, Body text, Headlines

Weights

100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900

Styles

Normal

Variable

Yes

Glyphs

591

Languages

Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Hebrew

Download size

78 KB

Source

github.com/OdedEzer/heebo

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 — reads only the one weight the file defaults to, and for Heebo that is the regular weight. 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 Türkçe 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.

What languages does Heebo support?

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.

What weights does Heebo come in?

Heebo comes in 9 weights: Thin (100), Extra Light (200), Light (300), Regular (400), Medium (500), Semi Bold (600), Bold (700), Extra Bold (800) and Black (900). It is a variable font, so every one of them is in a single file and you can also set any weight in between.

Is there a smaller, Latin-only version of Heebo?

Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 45 KB against 62 KB for the complete file, 29% smaller, with every weight the family has still in it. It covers Latin and Latin Extended, which is everything a page in English, Turkish or a western European language sets — Türkçe included, since ı, İ, ğ and ş all live in that range. Take the complete file instead if you set Cyrillic, Greek or any alphabet outside Latin.

Where can I download Heebo as WOFF2?

From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is heebo.woff2, and it is about 62 KB. It is the complete font repacked for the web rather than a cut-down copy: the same glyphs, the same spacing and the same hinting as the .ttf in the download, roughly 60% smaller. Every browser still receiving updates reads WOFF2, so it is the only web format most sites need. Google Fonts does not offer this file for download at all — it serves WOFF2 from its own servers and gives you .ttf if you ask for the family.

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.