We have designed four fonts based on the research that led to the reconstruction of the original pictographic Hebrew alphabet; Early Hebrew/Semitic, Middle Hebrew/Semitic, Late Hebrew/Semitic and Modern Hebrew/Semitic.

Below are the fonts and the keyboard keys for each letter. Rather than use the Roman letter that best represents the sound of the Hebrew letter, as most Hebrew fonts do, we have chosen to use the Roman letter that evolved out of the Hebrew (see Hebrew origin of the English alphabet). The letters tet and tsade were not used in the Roman alphabet and therefore we used the two Roman letters that best represented the original pictograph.

Download the font you want and place it in your fonts folder (usually located in your system at C:\Windows\Fonts). You can then use a word processing program such as Word to type in these fonts. Each font is interchangeable, in other words you can select a text that was written with one font and convert to another font. The modern Hebrew alphabets include five final letters (Kaph, Mem, Nun, Pey and Tsade), these are represented by the upper case letter. If you type a sentence in early Hebrew (which does not have final letters) but want to convert it into modern Hebrew later, type the final letter of every word in the upper case as the early, middle and late Hebrew fonts have the same font in the lower case and upper case for this reason.

Note concerning MS Vista: Some vista users are having trouble using the fonts. One reader found the solution was to go to Start>Control Panel>Appearance and Personalization>Fonts and right-click on the font window and at the bottom of the menu click on "install new fonts." Then highlight the fonts you want to install from the location they were downloaded and click install.

We are working on consolidating all of the fonts on the AHRC website to these four fonts but this will take time. In the mean time you may still need other Hebrew fonts on occasion to view some pages.

The time for each of these fonts are approximately as follows; Early Hebrew - before 1300 BCE, Middle Hebrew - 1300 to 400 BCE (though used on a limited basis until 100 CE), Late Hebrew - 400 BCE to 100 CE, Modern Hebrew - 1000 CE to present.

We are working on consolidating all of the fonts on the AHRC website to these four fonts but this will take time. In the mean time you may still need other Hebrew fonts on occasion to view some pages.

The Artesian Well Web Site has created a bookmark with the above image that you can print out yourself.