Miriam Libre

Try Miriam Libre

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Miriam Libre Regular
• Medium 500Miriam Libre Medium
• SemiBold 600Miriam Libre SemiBold
• Bold 700Miriam Libre Bold

Miriam Libre 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 Miriam Libre

Miriam Libre is a sans serif family for Hebrew and Latin drawn with strokes of near-uniform thickness. The official notes describe the Hebrew as a revival of Raphael Frank's Miriam typeface of 1908, with reworked proportions, fewer details and softer curves, and the Latin as a new design made to sit beside it. In the specimen the Latin is slightly narrow, the capital I and J carry horizontal bars, the lowercase l ends in a small curve, and stroke ends are cut straight. The family is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 700 and four named weights: Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold. There are no italics. The file holds 476 glyphs for Hebrew, Latin and Latin Extended. Michal Sahar, who works in Tel Aviv, leads the project, which is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Miriam Libre works

Bilingual Hebrew and Latin layouts

Both scripts belong to one family, so Hebrew and Latin lines share stroke weight and proportions on the same page.

Interface text

Even strokes and four weights from Regular to Bold give labels, menus and buttons a clear hierarchy without a second family.

Signage and wayfinding

The barred I and J and the curved foot of the l keep similar letters apart on signs that mix words and codes.

Headings and subheads

SemiBold and Bold set headings over Regular text, and the variable axis allows any step between 400 and 700.

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

Fonts that pair with Miriam Libre

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 Miriam Libre 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.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Miriam Libre";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/MiriamLibre-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Miriam+Libre:wght@400..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italics

The family has upright styles only; emphasis comes from the heavier weights.

Weight range stops at Bold

The axis runs from 400 to 700. There is no Light or Black.

Official description is older than the files

The published description still speaks of Regular and Bold only; the current variable file also names Medium and SemiBold.

FAQs

Collections with Miriam Libre

• Fonts that support Hebrew

  Open-license families with Hebrew and Latin drawn to work together: text sans and serifs, rounded and display designs.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts