It's very lively! Look at that final-mem with a big descender.

If "ink written" it would have to be with a brush.

I find it alarming that the descenders can interfere with
the ascenders on the line below. Is this a severe practical problem?

It's very lively! Look at that final-mem with a big descender.

If "ink written" it would have to be with a brush.

I find it alarming that the descenders can interfere with
the ascenders on the line below. Is this a severe practical problem?

well, yea - the big descenders really create a problem, so this font mainly works as a one-liner headline. it's just not working in small sizes or a text block because larg leading is required to avoid collisions, so it seems too big.

another interesting thing is that the final letters for mem and zadik are so elongated, that they are both descenders and ascenders, which creates a leading problem.

they are both descenders and ascenders, which creates a leading problem.

A long descender that reaches into the next line is of course a problem. But a letter that both descends and ascends? Lowercase "j" does that in English all the time, and no one seems to have noticed any problem...

Ah. Since we're dealing with Hebrew, ascenders of any kind are a problem, with or without accompanying descenders, because one is referring to ascenders above cap height, not ascenders above x-height, of which there isn't any.

...now, that isn't quite true, of course. There's lamed, after all.