Download Iosevka Font
Stephaine Zitzow
Iosevka (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-smallfont-size:85%.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-smallfont-size:100%IPA: [ˌjɔˈseβ.kʰa])[2] is a monospace programming typeface, built declaratively using custom typeface generation software, and with an emphasis on compatibility with CJK characters.[3] It is available under a FOSS license. The default builds are available in two styles of nine weights each, and come with italic and oblique versions. The typeface was designed to be easily configurable by editing textual TOML configuration files in the custom generation software.
The first version of Iosevka, then named codexHW, was created on 19 July 2015,[4] and renamed to Iosevka three days later.[5] It is the product of Chinese typographer Renzhi Li, using the Romanised pseudonym Belleve Invis.[6]
Iosevka once was a condensed font only, suitable to use with double width CJK characters, using a slashed zero by default. It contains many ligatures, especially suited towards functional programming languages such as Coq, Idris, and Haskell. The variant Iosevka Term is designed to better support terminals and the variant Iosevka Fixed omits the ligatures. It also comes with OpenType features including stylistic sets and character variants.
A second width variant (named Extended) expands all glyphs to easier readable proportions (7 by 10), and also proportionally spaced font variants are included now. Notably, all variants of the Iosevka font family cover the same set of 5013 unicode character points, plus 4 long arrows which do not belong to all variants.
One major characteristic of Iosevka is that it is generated from declarative data files using a multi-phase build process.[7] It was originally created as a typeface that could be used with a package called node-sfnt:
As I maintaining node-sfnt, a low-level library used to parse and generate TTFs in Node.JS, I decided to make a programming font using it. Iosevka is generated from a program written by me, as well as a set of parameters, pretty like Computer Modern, but in a more modern way. [...] [C]reating a font actually needs a domain-specific language, like Knuth's METAFONT language. With PatEL's macro system I can easily turn PatEL into a DSL while remaining its full ability of programming. The PatEL is in another repository I created, though not documented yet. It's [sic] syntax is basically a Lisp with improvements reducing brackets (by using colons and indents), and supporting infix operators.[8]
As of 2018, the data files are still written in the Patrisika Example Language, also known as PatEL.[9] PatEL is an alternative s-expression format somewhat akin to the wisp of SRFI 119.[10] The PatEL data is then converted into SpiderMonkey abstract syntax tree using another library called Patrisika.[11] The abstract syntax tree is then converted into JavaScript using Escodegen.[12]
in either case after refreshing my session the font spacing in my terminal is messed up, almost as if I weren't using a mono space font. What do you think is going wrong? Strangely enough the spacing seems to be perfect when I vim into any file, its just in the shell that the display is messed up. Whatever I type looks ok, it is just what the console displays that seems off.
Here is an image of the issue. It really is only happening in response to the ls command. You will notice that some files are displayed int my set terminal font and other are displayed with the strange spacing!
but my understanding was that was the font for window tiles and such. I also could be specifying the ioseva font wrong in my foot.init. It is surprisingly difficult to din any explicit reference to how you should name the iosevka font in your config file. I also have left most of my foot.ini file commented out (that was it's default setting). I have just uncommented the sections relevant to font.
Everything looks much worse and the spacing gets messed up everywhere! but most importantly I get an error that "Noto-Sans" is not monospace. Why would I be getting that error by setting the font to Ioveska? I link to the error below
Foot is an excellent terminal imo, but one thing to note is that in my experience it uses dpi of the screen in a different manner than you may be used to (read man foot.ini and look for the dpi-aware setting)- I only bring this up to say that explicitly setting a font size may not behave as you're used to in other terminals.
So I think your last post is correct for the font name ("Iosevka", you just need to correct the options which should be colon-separated with no spaces in between (read the man foot.ini for more explicit examples and instructions)). So in short I think it should be
and now everything works fine! I guess It was having issues resolving iosevka's bold font. Well thank you everyone. I learned a lot about how fonts work and found some good resources to continue learning more about configuring font. I really appreciate all of the help
Note that i think size 8 is the default size, if you change it make sure to add a size option to the bold and italic and bold-italic options which match otherwise you once gain get some funny looking spacing in terminal.
While it has served me well, I started to experimentwith some newer monospaced typefaces to see if I couldfind one that was even more legible1. That experiment quickly devolved intoa rabbit-hole evaluation of a bunch of new programming fonts.
i tried removing the privateBuildPlan (then the same thing happens with design), i also tried moving the family out of the privateBuildPlan and keeping the rest as it is (same result as the first error).
however, I can't get it working; do you have any tipps or maybe a link to the documentation of the nix iosevka package? the package on nixos.org just links to the normal iosevka github where I couldn't find anything...
As the title says, Affinity Designer lags a lot when entering text with font Iosevka ( , latest version). The same lagging also happens when entering text with other variants of Iosevka (tested with Iosevka SS11, Term, Slab and CC)and with Sarasa Mono ( -Gothic/releases), which shares the same monospace letter glyphs with Iosevka.
No such lagging is observed when editing with other fonts, like with the also ligature-rich font Fira Code (sadly, ligatures in both fonts are not usable in AD The Fira Code ones are visible, but the Iosevka ones aren't). Also not observed in other fonts with ".ttc" extension like Noto Serif CJK.
Hi lynzrand,
Sorry for the delay in responding! Is this still an issue for you using 1.7.1? I've just tried this myself using Iosevka SS11 and Sarasa Mono CL (a variety of different weights for both), but have so far been unable to reproduce. I've noticed that it looks like you have at least 4 big artboards so I'm wondering if it could be file specific this slowdown.
Could you try reproducing this in a new document please? If that is fine, then would you be able to attach the document shown in your video please so we can try and reproduce it with your document.
The instructions on the GitHub page say 'install one of the fonts-iosevka packages'. When I do apt-search fonts-, lots of packages for other fonts are listed, but fonts-iosevka is not. I have main, universe, restricted, and multiverse repos enabled.
Hey all! You may have noticed things looking a little different on thesite. I have finally decided to adopt a custom font family for myblog. Unless your browser overrides the fonts that websites use, youare likely looking at the first attempt at the Iosevka Iaso fontfamily. This is a custom version of theIosevka font that I designed for myonline brand image. It includes three fonts that serve differentpurposes:
In general, my website used to look inconsistent across differentplatforms. I had optimized things for macs with theMenlo typeface asthe default view of my website. This has worked for a long time, andmost of my readers use macs anyways. However, I've been wanting to doa design refresh on this blog for a while and haven't really found agood stepping stone into it.
Plus, it looks really weird to use a non-fixed-width font on this website. Itlooks really out of place and jarring. The fact that so much of my branddesign is centered around monospace fonts really makes it hard to changeanything without making everything look annoyingly different. The fact that theCSS I use assumes the use of a monospace font certainly doesn't help either.
Monospace fonts are also very bad forprose.My blog has lots of prose. This is a problem. I've had dyslexicfriends of mine lament that my blog's monospace font makes it harderto identify the shapes of words, and some have gone as far as usingtheir browser to override everything to their chosen easy to readfont. This probably needs to be fixed.
At the same time, if I make something like this, I want to be able tocreate an opinionated set of fonts that I can easily plug into otherprojects besides this blog. This would allow me to have things lookconsistent across browsers, projects, and even print media. I've neverreally had a "brand design" per se, and I want to experiment with thisto see if I can get something that I like.
I think I have created a large part of that with the Iosevka Iaso fontfamily. The Iosevka Aile Iaso font is quasi-proportional, meaning thatit looks something halfway between a proportional font like I'd liketo have and the monospace font that I used to have. This shouldhopefully make the transition less jarring.
The core of the implementation of this font is thanks to the Iosevkafont being customizable. Ifyou've never done it before, take a moment to play around with thecustomizer. It's nuts. You have so much control over what the fontdoes and how every letter is rendered. Want ligatures? You can pickthe set you want. Want the T to look different? You can do that.