Iosevka

Coders' typeface, built from code.

Installation

Quit your editor/program. Unzip and open the folder.

• Mac + Linux (with font-viewer) : Select the .ttf files and double click → Follow the on-screen guide.
• Windows : Right click the .ttf files → Install.
• Linux (manually) : Copy the .ttf files to your fonts-directory → Run sudo fc-cache.
  • Arch Linux users can install the font from the AUR here using an AUR wrapper or by doing it manually.

Detailed Instructions

• How to Install, Remove, and Manage Fonts on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
• Ubuntu Wiki

Building

To build Iosevka you should:

1. Ensure that node (≥ 5.0), FontForge (≥ Aug. 2015 release), ttfautohint, ttx and make are runnable in your terminal.
2. Install necessary libs by npm install
3. make.

You will find ttfs in the dist/ directory.

Build your own style

Iosevka comes with several visual styles, however they are inactive using the default build. To build these variants you should use style variables in the make procedure:

• STYLE_COMMON for both uprights and italics,
• STYLE_UPRIGHT for upright and oblique, and
• STYLE_ITALICS for itaics only.

You can add arbitary styles for these variables, for example, make STYLE_UPRIGHT='v-l-zshaped v-i-zshaped' to create a variant with Z-shaped letter l and i for uprights.

The current avaliable styles are:

• Styles for letter l:
• v-l-hooky : Hooky l
• v-l-zshaped : Z-shaped l
• v-l-serifed : Serifed l (default for upright and oblique)
• v-l-italic : Italic l (default for italic)
• Styles for letter i:
• v-i-hooky : Hooky i
• v-i-zshaped : Z-shaped i
• v-i-serifed : Serifed i (default for upright and oblique)
• v-i-italic : Italic i (default for italic)
• Styles for letter a:
• v-a-doublestorey : Double-storey a (default for upright and oblique)
• v-a-singlestorey : Single-storey a (default for italic)
• Styles for letter g:
• v-g-doublestorey : Double-storey g (default)
• v-g-singlestorey : Single-storey g
• Styles for letter 0:
• v-zero-slashed : Slashed Zero 0 (default)
• v-zero-dotted : Dotted Zero 0
• v-zero-unslashed : O-like 0
• Styles for ASCII tilde (~) and asterisk (*):
• v-tilde-high : Higher tilde ~ (default)
• v-tilde-low : Lower tilde ~
• v-asterisk-high : Higher asterisk * (default)
• v-asterisk-low : Lower asterisk *

Release Notes

• 1.5.5

• Adjusted the outlines of f, 2 and &, as well as full-width symbol ~.

• 1.5.4

• Fixed the distortion of letter s under several situations, for example, full-width.

• 1.5.3

• Fixed the slanted bottom tip of y in Slab oblique.

• 1.5.2

• Told OS X not to increase line height for bold weights.
• Pushed the i and l undef hooky variants rightward slightly.

• 1.5.1

• Added cv20 and cv21 for underscore variants (https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/pull/44)
• Reorganized ss01, ss02 and ss03. The less-frequent style (cv04 and cv08) is moved to ss03, while ss01 is for hooky shapes.

• 1.5.0

• The new "fairizer" now replaces FontForge's outline simplification. It will create smooth and fair outline curves now.
• Introduced centered asterisk (*) and tilde (~). They can be enabled by OpenType features ss10.
• cv** and ss** features introduced in 1.4.0 now supports accented letters.

• 1.4.3

• Added the "oblique" variant.
• Corrected the stroke width in italic variants. It will reduce the file size of italics and improve its outline quality.

• 1.4.2

• The shape of lowercase y is improved. Its slab version is redesigned.
• Rebalanced italic l and i.
• Enwiden /t.

• 1.4.1

• Fixed the incorrectly-shaped /nine in the thin variant.
• Fixed the broken serif of /yhooktop.

• 1.4.0

• Added five new weights: thin, extralight, light, medium and heavy.
• Shape optimizations for MANY letters, including /s, /r, /a, /beta, /cyryeri and their derived characters.

• 1.3.0

• Shape optimizations: /f, /r, /a, /s, /epsilon, /cyrze and their derived glyphs.
• Narrowed slab-serif variants.
• Added /overlineTieAbove, /underlineTieBelow and /turnTieAbove.

• 1.2.0

• Glyphs added: /cyrGhayn, /cyrghayn, /cyrChevbar, /cyrchevbar, /turnoe, /voicedlaryngenalspirant, /oupperhalf, /olowerhalf and their derived glyphs.
• Shape optimization: /eight, /propto, /J, /j, /epsilon, /cyrze, /taillessphi, /smcpPsi and their derived glyphs.
• Added the missing marks of /longs.
• Introduced a new SVG-based outline exporting mechanism. Now I am finally free from the rounding nightmare.

• 1.1.2

• Improved the balancing of /longs, /f and /eszet.
• The strokes of /A, /V and /v in Iosevka Slab is straightened.

• 1.1.1

• Added the missing serifs for /cyrdzhe.
• Balanced /pi in bold weights.
• Moved the descender lines of Cyrillic letters rightward a little in italics.

• 1.1.0

• Enwiden the boldfaces. This will improve the consistency between regular and bold weights.
• The curves in /xi are optimized.

• 1.0.2

• Fixed the incorrect /yhooktop.
• The digaphs defined in Unicode is now single-width.
• Reorganized subfamilies: Now the default Iosevka does not contain full-width glyphs any more.