 Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rose. All this YouTube channel features a pretty broad selection of content related to things related to living in Israel at the moment and things of that nature. So what I'm going to do today is show folks how to type in cursive Hebrew on your computer by downloading a font and I'm going to install it to Canva but you can install it where if you know how to install custom fonts on your computer regardless of whether you're using mac or windows or even the weird linux operating system like me you can basically install a ttf font and work with it on any you know program on your computer whether that's photoshop or google docs on the cloud but I'm just going to use Canva because it's cross-platform and it's pretty easy to do. So this is a nice website called HebrewFont.net and as you can see they have a pretty broad selection of Hebrew fonts which is really cool because generally by default on most computers there is like one super basic ugly Hebrew font and if you're doing stuff like creating marketing collateral and you want to include Hebrew this stuff looks an awful lot better. So this is a really good website and they have a selection for handwriting font. For those who don't know and if you're watching this video you probably do know there's really two main fonts in use or two main forms of writing in use in Hebrew. One is the kind of block script ashoreet generally in Israel written without vowels although this is a font with vowels but generally this is the standard font more exciting fonts and then when Israelis are writing stuff in more casual contexts people use a different font called cursive Hebrew although it's called handwriting font here it means the same thing and these bottom three scripts here on my screen fonts are all different cursive scripts. So I'm going to download one of these guys actually like this one I think it's quite exciting and I'm going to click on download and I'm going to just fill out the capture thing here and download this font. Okay so I've got the confirmation message and it's downloaded a zip file to my computer so I'm just going to go ahead and unzip this archive. So in my computer I'm able to look inside the archive before exporting it and you can see it's ttf so that's the true type font format and you can generally work with this in pretty much anything as I mentioned and that's finished. So for part two I'm going to upload the font we just downloaded into my Canva workspace so I've just gone ahead and created a YouTube thumbnail in Canva 1280 by 720 pixels and I'm just going to look through my upload queue and I just did a video about my flight back from Turkey last week so I'm just going to resize this and just you know pretend I'm doing up a thumbnail for YouTube so I'm going to get it around here and I'm going to add a text element and this is where we're going to upload our font so on the top left in Canva you can pull through the fonts that are installed here by default and you also if you have the pro Canva you have this little uploaded font thing so you do need the pro paid Canva for this but I think it's a super good investment and again I'm just pulling Canva here as a demo so there's an upload a font button and I'm just going to click on that and then I'm going to just pop into the cursive font folder and I'm going to select the true type font here and I'm going to click on open and then you need to just confirm that you have rights to use the font for the intended purpose so just always check against the copyright page on whatever font you're installing to make sure that you have the legitimate right to use it in this manner so I'm going to click on yes upload anyway this will just take a second TTFs are really small graphic files now when you're typing in cursive Hebrew it's going to be the same key mapping as typing in regular Hebrew so I'm going to just type here I'm swapping my keyboard layout into Hebrew and I'm just going to type TISA le Turquia which means flight to Turkey TISA le Turquia on my keyboards please excuse me Hebrew speakers if I made any really basic spelling mistakes I'm pretty sure that's that's correct and now in my uploaded fonts I have the danayad alef alef nor so I need to click on that and you can see we've changed out of block Hebrew font into our cursive Hebrew font and just to make this a little bit more clear I'm going to just add a background so you guys can see I'm going to put this in white so there's a bit of contrast and I'm going to move this back to the back of the canvas and now you guys can see that nice Hebrew font there so that's typing in cursive and you can type of course anything you want so I can type my name in Hebrew Danny Daniel and that's Danielle Daniel written in cursive Hebrew font and if I choose a font like Aleph which is another Hebrew font that's I think installed by default then I can go to block Hebrew that's Danielle and block Hebrew I've been clicking on danayad I can I can get back to Danielle in cursive Hebrew so you can replicate this process that I did in Canva on pretty much any program and you can create nice graphic elements for whatever you're doing promoting something creating flyers for social media using cursive Hebrew fonts on your computer hope this is helpful and thank you guys very much for watching