David Libre
Designed By
Monotype Imaging Inc., SIL International, Meir Sadan
3 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
David Libre · Regular
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3 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download David Libre ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Minutes of the board meeting
A Page In David Libre
David Libre · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
3 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
Minutes of the board meeting
Medium500
Minutes of the board meeting
Bold700
Minutes of the board meeting
David Libre’s glyphs were shrunk by 12.5% on purpose. David is the official typeface for Israeli correspondence, and at the original size, documents first set in the David bundled with Windows would have spilled onto extra pages and broken lines in odd places. Shrinking it gets close to the Windows David, though not to a perfect match.
The design itself goes back to Ismar David. Monotype released David Hadash Formal in 2012, a digitization made from his large technical drawings, and Google worked with Monotype to free the 3 book weights, Regular, Medium and Bold. Meir Sadan, a type designer in Tel Aviv, built the new version for Google Fonts, aiming at what Israeli institutions need, and kept the original spacing intact.
A few things changed on the way. The Sheqel sign was redrawn because the old one had drifted too far from what Hebrew readers expect today, diacritic marks were repositioned, and Latin letters were taken from SIL’s Gentium so English and Hebrew can share a line. The OpenType extras:
- nikud, the Hebrew vowel points, with the features they need
- Stylistic Set 1, numerals sized to the Hebrew letters
- Stylistic Set 2, a Hebrew ampersand Ismar David drew
- Stylistic Set 3, his own form of the Sheqel
Biblical cantillation marks are not included, so a liturgical edition will need something else. For a ministry letter or a bilingual report, this is the obvious free choice.
Characters & Figures
804 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
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David Libre
3 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 193 KB ↓- Version
- 1.100
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/david-libre-2/david-libre-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'David Libre', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
David Libre Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.