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Calligraphy artist and Hebrew type designer. Every font I create starts with a hand-drawn sketch, real calligraphy, and the belief that letters have a soul.
I'm Lia Baratz, a calligraphy artist, Hebrew type designer, and visual artist from Israel. The Hebrew letter has always felt alive to me - not just a graphic shape, but memory, emotion, movement, and story.
Through Lia Fonts I create Hebrew fonts that blend traditional calligraphy with contemporary typography - fonts with character, presence, and a human feel.
I grew up between worlds - religious tradition on one side, modern visual culture on the other. Over the years I've created fonts and lettering for branding projects, books, memorials, and wedding designs.
My work has been shown in exhibitions, typography communities, and Judaica projects.
Letters are never just letters - they carry memory, identity, and soul.
It never starts in software. It starts with a feeling - what emotion should this word evoke? Only then comes the shape.
The Hebrew letters come before the Latin ones. I design them as the original work, not as a translation.
A geometrically perfect font isn't necessarily a good one. A font with soul - always.
It all began with a single calligraphy workshop with Shiri Lantzer in Pardes Hanna. I had dreamed about that workshop for months. At the time I was working full-time for minimum wage at an advertising agency, in the heart of one of Tel Aviv's loudest, most crowded neighborhoods, looking for a way into the world of calligraphy that was already burning inside me. The first time I tried it, I fell in love instantly. From there I went on to a six-month course, and later studied with some of the field's leading artists and designers - among them the international Japanese calligraphy master Kazuo Ishii, as well as Oded Ezer, Dani HaTayas, Yoram Kaplan, Aviv Malki, and others.
With Juliette, the first calligraphic font I created by hand. Commissions from studios and private brands, and magazine features.
Two years of work for different studios - and alongside them, hundreds of font sketches that never saw the light.
43 Hebrew fonts, hundreds of customers, and one idea that won't quit: letters have something to tell.
Every font in the catalog was born on this road - from hand calligraphy to a ready-to-install file.
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