Back to Bible with cantillation marks.
The normal Hebrew fonts supplied by Microsoft with the Internet Explorer browser do not support cantillation marks or even some of the standard non-cantillation marks of Hebrew. If you see black blocks between the letters instead of cantillation marks, you need to install a special Unicode font that does support Hebrew fully.
Many free Unicode Hebrew fonts seem to be in development and several good ones are already available. At this point, our favorites are still those from SIL: the Ezra SIL SR with traditional rounded cantillation marks and Ezra SIL with square cantillation marks as in the manuscripts version 2.5. There are also 5 Shlomo fonts derived from the Ezra SIL SR font with SIL's permission that some prefer for work with Word. Other fonts you might want to try are those from Sourceforge's Culmus Project Taamey Culmus, the SBL Hebrew font, or the Cardo fonts. We do not have a MAC and do not know what to recommend for MACs.
We ask you to write us your recommendations by clicking on the link below, if you think that another font is better and still reasonably priced or free.
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last updated: 6 October 2011