Vilna (if you have Windows - you have it)

Thanks.

Vilna is the closest I have ever found, but it’s not quite the one. Might be the closest there is, but I’d hoped to find a better match.

Vilna’s yud character is a bit squarer, as are a few others actually.

Also, I’m on a Mac (of course!). But that’s irrelevant for now.

Similar, Koren MF and Monotype’s Peninim

> but it’s not quite the one

Do you want to match metal to digital? Good luck.

Peninim? This face based on Frank-Rühl (and not good for your project)

Just trying to help...
Help yourself http://www.myfonts.com/browse/foundry/masterfont/

I know I’ll never get a perfect match, David, between metal and digital. But I was just hoping there might be a closer match than Vilna, though I agree it’s pretty close in some respects. The yud, the bet, and a few others give it away, to me. But I think it might be the best there is out there. Vilna is by far the best so far.

What I am trying to do, you see, is add a couple of paragraphs to a book I am resetting. I have used scans of the old book for most of the text in Hebrew, but there’s a few new sections I need to set, and I had hoped I could use a digital font. Do you think I will get away with Vilna for this?

Thanks Miguel. I’ve seen loads of Hebrew fonts looking for this match, including all the ones at that link. But somehow the perfect match has yet to be found.

Maybe I am being too fussy, I know. I have sometimes hoped to commission a digital version of this font. Maybe one day.

> Do you think I will get away with Vilna for this?

Why? What is the subject of the book?

it’s a prayer book, but only a short one, for a special service. Most of the prayers are already set in other books, but there is a newly composed prayer which I need to set, and I wonder if you think Vilna will be a close enough match for me to type the new prayer out and use it, but simply scan in in the old ones.