Companion app · Graphics & Design
Otiyot: Hebrew Letter Art
Art From a Name or a Date
A name, drawn in its own letters.
Otiyot turns a name, a verse or a date into a piece of art made entirely of Hebrew letterforms. Every letter's numerical value decides where it sits, how large it is drawn and which way it turns — so the same name always makes the same piece, and it is only ever that person's.
Make it yours
- Type in Hebrew, or type in English and the app transliterates — you can correct the Hebrew line
- A bare number becomes its Hebrew numeral; a date is read onto the Hebrew calendar (18 → י״ח, 3/14/1990 → י״ז אדר תש״נ)
- Two live sliders — density and contrast — plus finer knobs behind Adjust: variation, branches, flourish, scale, spread, tilt, jitter
- Five fixed palettes: Parchment, Midnight, Gold Leaf, Ink, Sky
- Roll the die for a version you wouldn't have thought to ask for
- Long-press the canvas and every control steps out of the way
Export and print
- 1024, 2048 or 4096 pixels square for printing and framing
- Phone and desktop wallpaper sizes
- Save to Photos or share it anywhere
- Hebrew reads right to left, and so does the art — every run of letters starts at the right
Eight compositions
Radial · Spiral · Mandala · Woven · Wave · Growth · Field · Frame. Each uses the letters differently: rings around a centre, one unbroken winding line, mirrored arms, warp and weft, columns standing about an axis, a branching tree, a grid you read as texture from across the room, or nested borders like a page waiting to be read.
Arithmetic, not meaning
Nothing here claims that a name's gematria means anything, predicts anything, or reveals anything. Gematria has a long and serious history in Jewish thought; this app borrows only its arithmetic, to make something beautiful. Fully offline — no accounts, no network, no analytics.
