A Hebrew font designer. Every font I create begins with a hand sketch, authentic calligraphy, and the belief that letters have a soul.
I'm Lia Baratz, a calligraphy artist, Hebrew font designer, and visual artist from Israel.
Hebrew letterforms have always felt alive to me - not just graphic shapes, but memory, emotion, movement, and story.
Through Lia Fonts I create Hebrew typefaces that blend traditional calligraphy with contemporary typography - fonts with character, presence, and a human feel.
I grew up between worlds of religious tradition and modern visual culture. Over the years I created fonts and artwork for branding, books, memorials, and wedding designs.
My work has been featured in exhibitions, typography communities, and Judaica projects.
Because for me, letters are never just letters. They carry memory, identity, and soul.
We don't start with software. We start with feeling - what emotion should this word evoke.
Hebrew letters come first. I design them as the primary creation, not a translation.
A geometrically perfect font is not necessarily good. A font with soul - always.
Everything started from a single calligraphy workshop with Shiri Lanzer in Pardes Hana.
I dreamed of that workshop for months. At the time I worked full-time for minimum wage at an ad agency, in one of the noisiest neighborhoods in Tel Aviv, searching for a way into the world of calligraphy burning inside me.
When I arrived at the workshop and tried it for the first time, I fell in love immediately.
From there I continued to a six-month course, later studying with leading artists and designers in the field, including internationally renowned Japanese calligraphy artist Kazuo Ishiai, who exhibited in Japan, China, and Israel, as well as Oded Ezer, Danny HaTayas, Yoram Kaplan, Aviv Malki and others.
With the first calligraphic font I created by hand - the Juliet font. Orders from studios, private brands, and magazine features.
Two years of work for various studios, and alongside that, hundreds of font sketches that never saw the light.
43 Hebrew fonts, hundreds of clients, and one idea that never stops: letters have a story to tell.
43 Hebrew fonts, each with its own character - and one of them is for you.
