Rashi script

Complete Hebrew alphabet in Rashi script (right to left)

The Rashi script or Sephardic script (Hebrew: כְּתַב רַשִׁ״י, romanizedKtav Rashi) is a typeface for the Hebrew alphabet based on 15th-century Sephardic semi-cursive handwriting. It is named for the rabbinic commentator Rashi, whose works are customarily printed in the typeface (though Rashi himself died several hundred years before the script came into use). It was taken as a model by early Hebrew typographers such as Abraham Garton, the Soncino family and Daniel Bomberg in their editions of commented texts (such as the Mikraot Gedolot and the Talmud, in which Rashi's commentaries prominently figure).[1]

  1. ^ Shurpin, Yehuda. "What Is Rashi Script and Where Did It Come From?". Chabad.org. Retrieved November 17, 2018.

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