סהרהSahara
6 styles: Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold
Features: Nikkud (vowel marks), alternate letters
About the typeface
Deep in the isolated desert of the northern Sahara, among kasbahs of crumbling mud brick, lies a remote Jewish cemetery in the town of El-Khanq. While fifteenth-century European printing imposed uniformity on the Hebrew letter, the desert preserved a raw, primal hand: letters carved into unworked stone that obey neither baseline nor press, echoing Second Temple manuscripts and the horizontal, arid landscape around them. From hundreds of photographs of the tombstones, taken at sunrise and sunset, the skeleton of the original letters was extracted and the missing characters completed — a new-old Hebrew typeface that follows the “laws of the desert”. The project was carried out in 2024 at the Mifal HaPais Incubator for the Hebrew Letter at the Shenkar Design Research Center, in collaboration with the Jewish Architecture in the Northern Sahara documentation project of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Charles University in Prague, led by Prof. Daniel Ziss.
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Prices exclude VAT. No VAT is charged outside Israel.Licenses — which one do I need?
For anything printed
For design that is printed or exported as a file. Install the font on your computer and use it in any design software.
For embedding in websites
Lets you embed the font in a website as a webfont, so it loads for every visitor.
For bundling inside an app
For embedding the font in a mobile app or desktop software.
Frequently asked questions
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How do I embed the font in a website?
@font-face rule to your CSS pointing to the WOFF2 file, then use the family name in font-family. We’re happy to send sample embed code — just ask.