On Thursday 21 April 2016 20:51:10 Lior Kaplan wrote: > Thanks for letting us know. I'm very sorry to hear these sad news. >
Same here. Besides open source, Yoram also contributed to open standards -- I met him when he contributed to the Hebrew Keyboard Layout standard. Shai. > 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 _______________________________________________ Discussions mailing list Discussions@hamakor.org.il http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions
