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Heebo

A Hebrew and Latin sans whose Hebrew, drawn by Oded Ezer, extends the Roboto Latin; nine variable weights.

Sans Serif 9 styles · variable by Oded Ezer OFL

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Heebo is a Hebrew and Latin sans serif in which Oded Ezer drew Hebrew letters to extend the Roboto Latin design. Heebo is a variable font with nine weights from Thin 100 to Black 900 and no italic. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits Hebrew and bilingual interfaces, websites and text.

Heebo font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Oded Ezer
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
9 9 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 100–900
Glyphs
569
Languages checked
24 see the list
Last updated
version 3.100
Used for
Body textInterfacesBranding

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

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Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Heebo; the download contains the complete files.

Heebo font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Heebo specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Thin 100Heebo Thin
  • ExtraLight 200Heebo ExtraLight
  • Light 300Heebo Light
  • Regular 400Heebo Regular
  • Medium 500Heebo Medium
  • SemiBold 600Heebo SemiBold
  • Bold 700Heebo Bold
  • ExtraBold 800Heebo ExtraBold
  • Black 900Heebo Black

Heebo is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Heebo

Heebo is a sans serif family for Hebrew and Latin. Its Latin letters come from Roboto, and Oded Ezer drew the Hebrew to match them; Meir Sadan mastered the font files. Because the Hebrew is the primary script, the vertical metrics differ from those of Roboto, and Heebo is auto-hinted where Roboto is hinted by hand, which the official notes say can favour Roboto on old Windows systems. The Latin in the specimen is a plain upright sans with a double-storey a, a single-storey g and fairly closed curves on c, e and s. Heebo became a variable font in May 2020, with a weight axis from 100 to 900 and nine named weights; it has no italic. The 569 glyphs cover Hebrew, Latin and Latin Extended, and a November 2023 update fixed Hebrew bugs. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Heebo works

Hebrew websites and apps
Hebrew is the primary script of the design, and the vertical metrics were set for it, so Hebrew text is not an afterthought beside the Latin.
Hebrew and English side by side
Both alphabets are in one file with nine shared weights, so mixed lines keep the same stroke thickness.
Adding Hebrew to a Roboto-based product
The Latin of Heebo comes from Roboto, which lets a Hebrew version stay close to an existing Roboto interface.
Titles in extreme weights
Thin 100 and Black 900 are available in Hebrew as well as Latin for large display lines.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 569 glyphs.

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Icelandic
  • Catalan
  • Turkish
  • Polish
  • Czech
  • Slovak
  • Hungarian
  • Romanian
  • Croatian
  • Slovenian
  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Hebrew. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: hebrew, latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2014 The Heebo Project Authors (https://github.com/OdedEzer/heebo)

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Heebo

Roboto Sans Serif

Heebo takes its Latin from Roboto, so Roboto can supply the italics Heebo lacks, with the caveat that the vertical metrics of the two differ.

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Heebo on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Heebo";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Heebo-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Heebo", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Heebo with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

No italic
Heebo has nine upright weights and no italic style.
Metrics differ from Roboto
Although the Latin letters come from Roboto, line height and vertical positioning are not identical, so the two are not drop-in replacements for each other.
Auto-hinted
The official notes state that Heebo is auto-hinted, while Roboto is hand-hinted.
The specimen shows Latin only
The sample image is set in Latin letters; the Hebrew alphabet is in the same file.

FAQs

Is Heebo free for commercial use?

Yes. Heebo is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

Who designed Heebo?

Heebo's Hebrew was drawn by Oded Ezer, who leads the project from Tel Aviv; Meir Sadan mastered the files. The Latin letters come from Roboto.

How many weights does Heebo have?

Heebo has nine named weights, from Thin 100 to Black 900, without italics.

Is Heebo a variable font?

Yes. Heebo has been a variable font since May 2020, with a weight axis from 100 to 900.

Does Heebo support Hebrew?

Yes. Heebo is a Hebrew-first family with a Hebrew subset, alongside Latin and Latin Extended.

Is Heebo the same as Roboto?

No. Heebo takes its Latin letters from Roboto and adds a Hebrew alphabet, but its vertical metrics and hinting differ, and it has no italics.

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