Spatial efficient monospace font family for programming. Built from code.
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Iosevka
Coders' typeface, built from code.
Preview
Iosevka
Iosevka Slab
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
.
Detailed Instructions
- How to Install, Remove, and Manage Fonts on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
- Ubuntu Wiki
Building
To build Iosevka you should:
- Ensure that
node
,FontForge
(≥ Aug. 2015 release),ttfautohint
,ttx
andmake
are runnable in your terminal. - Install necessary libs by
npm install
make
.
You will find ttfs in the build/
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 uprights only, andSTYLE_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
: Hookyl
v-l-zshaped
: Z-shapedl
v-l-serifed
: Serifedl
(default for upright subfamilies)v-l-italic
: Italicl
(default for italic subfamilies)
- Styles for letter
i
:v-i-hooky
: Hookyi
v-i-zshaped
: Z-shapedi
v-i-serifed
: Serifedi
(default for upright subfamilies)v-l-italic
: Italici
(default for italic subfamilies)
Release Notes
- 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.