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Release 0.140 with Hebrew romanization

by Maxim Iorsh

Hello all, It's been way too long since the last release, and now I'm glad to announce the new release 0.140 of Culmus fonts. This is mostly a maintenance and refactoring release with two main highlights being Hebrew romanization characters proposed and executed by Aharon Varady, and nikkud support in Drugulin Bold. The package is available for download at https://sourceforge.net/projects/culmus/files/culmus/0.140 . Wishing everyone peace 🎗️ and prosperity, -- Maxim. <https://kishkush.net/@iorsh>

Aug. 2, 2024

New culmus-announce mailing list

by Maxim Iorsh

Hello and welcome to the new Culmus Fonts announcement list! We are migrating from SourceForge to Mailman 3, and your subscription was transferred automatically. A farewell message will be sent to the old list in a few days, with an invitation to subscribe to the new one. Please ignore it. All future announcements regarding Culmus Fonts releases will be posted on this list. Wishing you a happy Sukkot, -- Maxim. <https://kishkush.net/@iorsh>

Oct. 1, 2023

Development release 0.133.1 of Frank Ruehl CLM

by Maxim Iorsh

Hello all, Recently I've been working on a substantial update to Frank Ruehl CLM, and now I'm glad to publish it as a developers' preview on the Culmus site <https://culmus.sourceforge.io/developers.html>. The Frank Ruehl CLM family has been updated to the version 0.133.1, and it contains the following changes: 1. Supported placement of HEBREW ACCENT OLE (used mainly for stressing syllables). 2. Supported placement of HEBREW POINT METEG. 3. HEBREW YOD TRIANGLE and other Unicode additions. 4. Romanization symbols <https://culmus.sourceforge.io/notes.html#romanization> for ISO-259 and for Open Siddur Project <https://opensiddur.org/>. Later this year I expect to publish this version in the main package together with more updates for other fonts. Best wishes on the upcoming Jerusalem Day, -- Maxim. <https://kishkush.net/@iorsh>

May 16, 2023

Hebrew Romanization in SimpleCLM

by Maxim Iorsh

Hello all, I'm glad to announce that the Culmus Project now provides initial support for Hebrew romanization <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Hebrew>. The new version 0.111 of the SimpleCLM font contains special Latin characters required for proper transliteration of Hebrew letters, and it's available in the Preview section of the Developers' Area <https://culmus.sourceforge.io/developers.html>. There is also an overview of general romanization requirements in the Notes section <https://culmus.sourceforge.io/notes.html#romanization>. The font was kindly provided by Aharon Varady. I would like to thank Aharon both for this contribution and for his overall effort to promote the use of free Hebrew fonts on the internet. Best wishes for the new civil year, -- Maxim. <https://kishkush.net/@iorsh>

Jan. 13, 2023

The new fancy font "Lulav CLM"

by Maxim Iorsh

Hello, After a long period of silence, I'm sooooo glad to announce the new font "Lulav CLM". This is a calligraphy-styled font and it comes in a single Bold weight. With its addition the fancy collection <https://culmus.sourceforge.io/fancy/index.html> expands to 14 fonts. Please note that in some word processing software the font is listed under its Hebrew name as "לולב", and it can be found at the very bottom of the list of fonts. This initial version of "Lulav" contains only letters, and I hope it would be at least of some use for display typographic jobs. Usually my fonts include at least the minimal punctuation and digits along with the letters, but this time I felt that if I delay the publication yet again, it may just never happen. Hopefully, I will add more stuff in the future. Happy non-holidays, -- Maxim. NOTE FOR MAINTAINTERS: Recently I performed some technical update for most fancy fonts, so if you package them for a linux distribution, please retrieve all fancy font files anew from the site.

Oct. 23, 2022

Fwd: Release 0.133 with new Caladings symbols

by Maxim Iorsh

Hello, The new release 0.133 of the Culmus fonts is available for download from the site of the project http://culmus.sourceforge.net. This is a minor release which introduces new and updated symbols in Caladings. Changes: 1. Improved Hamsa shape in Caladings - contributed by Aharon Varady. 2. New Synagogue glyph inspired by the Grand Choral Synagogue of St. Petersburg <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Choral_Synagogue>. 3. Flag of Israel, moon phases and minor fixes. 4. Fixed varika in David CLM - an issue detected by Hebrew Font Visualizer <https://opensiddur.org/help/fonts> (again, courtesy of Aharon Varady). Please kindly contact me with any requests and comments. Best wishes and happy holidays, -- Maxim.

Sept. 30, 2018

Release 0.132 with rafe/meteg support in David

by Maxim Iorsh

Hello all, The new release 0.132 of the Culmus fonts is available for download from the site of the project http://culmus.sourceforge.net. This is a minor release which introduces support of meteg and rafe diacritics into David CLM font. Please kindly contact me with any requests and comments. Best wishes, -- Maxim.

Jan. 20, 2018

Release 0.131 with the redesigned Nachlieli font

by Maxim Iorsh

Hello all, The new release 0.131 of the Culmus fonts is available for download from the site of the project http://culmus.sourceforge.net. 15 years after its introduction, the old Nachlieli font has been completely redesigned, and now it also supports diacritics. Please kindly contact me with any requests and comments. Best wishes, -- Maxim.

May 5, 2017

"Trashim CLM" - a new fancy font

by Maxim Iorsh

Hello, I’m glad to announce the new irregular font “Trashim CLM”. The font comes in bold, and It expands the fancy section to the total of 13 fonts. The font is available at the Culmus site<http://culmus.sourceforge.net/fancy/index.html>in both Type 1 and OTF formats; the latter can also be used in Windows. Please note that in Windows the font is listed under its Hebrew name as "טרשים", and usually can be found at the very bottom of the list of fonts. I would be glad to hear your wishes and comments. Best regards, -- Maxim.

Jan. 20, 2013

Release 0.130 with the new Shofar font

by Maxim Iorsh

Hello all, The new release 0.130 of the Culmus fonts is available for download from the site of the project <http://culmus.sourceforge.net>. This release includes the Shofar font by Yoram Gnat, which has been available for a while in the "Taamey Culmus" section. The font is inspired by Koren type<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koren_Type>, with redesigned letter forms and the height-to-width ratio. The cantillation marks are based on ancient forms (like those found in the Alleppo and Leningrad codices). Please kindly contact me with any requests and comments. Best wishes, -- Maxim.

Nov. 6, 2012