Thanks for letting us know. I'm very sorry to hear these sad news. Beside Culmus, Yoram was also very friendly to us @ Hamakor, helping with gathering location in Shenkar.
Kaplan On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Aharon Varady <aha...@jewishfreeculture.org > wrote: > Very sad news to share from the family of Yoram Gnat, digital typographer > from the Open Source Hebrew font foundry, Culmus. His daughter, Orly, > informed me this morning that Yoram Gnat passed away this past January, > shortly after being diagnosed with Leukemia. > > We will post more information about Yoram after we've gathered it for a > remembrance. Yoram was responsible for all of the Culmus fonts shared with > GPL+FE licenses including. (A long list of fonts contributed by Yoram can > be found under his name at <http://opensiddur.org/tools/fonts>.) > > He was always responsive to our requests to help with changes to popular > fonts -- adding a bowed head lamed to Frank Ruehl and turning on the niqud > for the "Rashi-script" Sepharadi cursive font. Through his ḥesed in sharing > his work open-source, his craft literally affected millions and we are > extremely grateful for his work. > > The Culmus Project continues through the effort of Yoram's long time > collaborator, Maxim Iorsh. > > We hope to share more on Yoram's life and work as it becomes available. > > May his name and his handiwork be remembered for a blessing. > > > Aharon > > -- > A.N. Varady > Director > the Jewish Free Culture Society > for Open-source in Judaism > https://jewishfreeculture.org > > _______________________________________________ > Discussions mailing list > Discussions@hamakor.org.il > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions >
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