Your premise - that people would rather like a screen-oriented font, which essentially means a sans-serif font - could have applied to English/Latin languages as well. You could indeed cast the question as 'screen vs print', but it's kind of splitting hairs since, typically, serif fonts look better in print and sans serif look better on screen.īut be the question put as it may, I don't see a reason for this choice to be different for Hebrew than in is for English - where the default is Liberation (serif) for Writer, and Liberation Sans for Calc. (In reply to Shai Berger from comment #6) * Miriam Mono CLM - The current last preferred hebrew font to default to in VCL and the only available monospace hebrew font * Miriam CLM - The current number 2 preferred hebrew font to default to in VCL * Nachlieli CLM - The current number 1 preferred hebrew font to default to in VCL * David CLM - Recommended by Eyal from hebrew CTL team to be used as default We currently prefer the open source Culmus font collection for hebrew text, so we should bundle a few of them, which includes So similar to LO bundling open source fonts like Liberation and DejaVu fonts to ensure interoperability of latin-based documents, we should bundle a few hebrew fonts. LibreOffice currently prefers the open source hebrew fonts when they are installed, but if it doesnt ship some by default, this wont improve the interoperability of documents. Some header/body font combinations (David CLM, Libre, Narkisim)ĭescription Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) Hebrew Fonts Currently in LibreOffice (updated) MS vs Libre vs CLM and Web Fonts and David vs Alef

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