Add Hebrew (and other non-Latin) characters

[herzigma]

I would like to use Redacted for Hebrew!

The specific use case is to "redact" the letters, but leave vowels and cantillation marks visible for practice. But this would be useful for anyone who designs products using non-Latin alphabets.

You can find examples of Unicode Hebrew text with cantillation marks here: https://gist.github.com/herzigma/c01413d2672465e6cf53b15f5e742aae

I attempted to do something similar replacing Hebrew letters with various Unicode block characters but, as you can see from the attached, each block character overlaps with at least the lower vowels/cantillation marks:

This is personally important to me--I would be willing to sponsor someone to complete the work in a timely manner.

Thank you!

[abdrhnf]

I would like to use Redacted for Hebrew!

The specific use case is to "redact" the letters, but leave vowels and cantillation marks visible for practice. But this would be useful for anyone who designs products using non-Latin alphabets.

You can find examples of Unicode Hebrew text with cantillation marks here: https://gist.github.com/herzigma/c01413d2672465e6cf53b15f5e742aae

I attempted to do something similar replacing Hebrew letters with various Unicode block characters but, as you can see from the attached, each block character overlaps with at least the lower vowels/cantillation marks:

This is personally important to me--I would be willing to sponsor someone to complete the work in a timely manner.

Thank you!

I would like to work on this! would you sponsor?

[nmassi]

I am also available :)

[herzigma]

@nmassi @abdrhnf absolutely!

What do you think a fair rate would be? Do either of you have a platform where you've done work like this?

How does this sound as a scope of work:

1. Enhance the typeface so that Hebrew letters are blacked out
2. I'll provide you with a text file (attached) with Hebrew words that include cantillation marks and vowels so that we can confirm those are visible even when the letters are blacked out. hebrew redaction test file (view Right to Left).txt
3. Have your enhancement approved by the project admin (is that a PR? I should really learn Github terminology)

Optionally: if it's straightforward to do so I'd be happy to pay you to add other non-Latin alphabets - we can discuss after the above are done?

[abdrhnf]

@herzigma This is my foundry website https://monocotypefoundry.com, I have experienced making multi-script Latin, Arabic, and Cyrillic font, MO Bayannur as you can see here

to answer your question number 3, it is Open Font so I think we can edit the source font(s) and publish it again as another open-source version of this font, or you can just use it for yourself.

Do you have an email or other contact we can communicate with? I will propose some concepts & the price offer to your email.

[christiannaths]

I'd love if all the work would eventually be rolled back into this repository. It's part of Google Font's offerings, so it would be really cool to see the improvements surface there too!

[abdrhnf]

@christiannaths I agree, I would love to do it if @herzigma sponsored me.