Rashi script | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-11-08

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Rashi script

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Rashi script is a semi-cursive typeface for the Hebrew alphabet. It is named for Rashi, an author of rabbinic commentary on the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the Talmud, and it is customarily used for printing his commentaries. The typeface (which was not used by Rashi himself) is based on 15th century Sephardic semi-cursive handwriting. It was taken as a model by early Hebrew typographers such as Abraham Garton, the Soncino family and Daniel Bomberg, a Christian printer in Venice, in their editions of commented texts (such as the Mikraot Gedolot and the Talmud, in which Rashi's commentaries prominently figure).
The purpose was to distinguish the rabbinic commentary from the text itself for which a proper square typeface was used.
The Rashi typeface is also traditionally used for printed Judaeo-Spanish.