About

A team that designs Hebrew letters. From scratch.

Leshem is a studio of type designers focused on one thing: original Hebrew typefaces, point by point.

Outline of the letter Shin from Gartl, with its anchor points and handles

Who we are

We are a team of letter designers, font engineers and typographers. Every Leshem typeface is born in our studio, from first sketch to final file, with no copies and no shortcuts.

The Leshem team · Hebrew type designers

4: families
15: weights
27: letters + niqqud

Leshem's four type families set one under another

How a letter is born

Three steps: a drawn source of the letter Shin, its outline with points, and the finished letter

1.
Sketch and source
It starts with a pencil: the skeleton, the thick-thin contrast, the tail and the crown.
2.
Outline
In the editor every curve is built from points and handles. One letter can hold dozens of points, each placed by hand.
3.
Spacing and kerning
A good letter is measured by the space around it, too. We tune widths, sidebearings and kerning pair by pair.
4.
Family
Then one letter becomes a family: alef-bet, finals, niqqud, numerals and weights, all tested together.