Iosevka: The Open-Source Font That Packs 248 Languages Into Your Terminal
Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif, monospace font
Iosevka is a free, open-source typeface family designed for code, terminals, and technical documents. It offers monospace and quasi-proportional variants, with 146 configurable characters and 19 stylistic sets. The monospace family uses a slender half-em width to fit more columns on screen, while terminal-specific families provide narrower symbols and disabled ligatures for compatibility. It supports 248 languages and includes language-specific ligatures.
The Iosevka’s monospace family is provided in a slender outfit by default: glyphs are exactly 1/2em wide.
- wartywhoa23
Iosevka, my absolutely most loved font for years!
I've been using a custom version - you can customize the font¹ and build your own ttf (or better yet, ttc) using the build system supplied in the repository².
be5invis, the author of the font, deserves a special mention for creating a whole custom DSL called PatEL (Parametric Type Expression Language) to generate the font programmatically!
Renzhi, if you ever come around to read this, thank you so much for Iosevka, man!
¹https://typeof.net/Iosevka/customizer
²https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/blob/master/doc/custom-b...
- oefrha
IMO a font specimen site may be the worst place to use font-display: swap. Was wondering why I was looking at what seemed indistinguishable from Courier, turns out what I saw was exactly Courier.
- jve
Is it only me but I really dislike "Code Ligations"? I have to mark some chars to count how many consecutive "=" simbols there are... or \/ looking like V without having other chars near it to distinguish. Having to copy paste diamond shape to find out it is <>. arrows with squiggly tails, /> being ugly, <. having dot in the middle...
That could be the maximum I'd like out of font to have "proper" greater/less-equal sign.
- edg5000
I've been using Droid Sans Mono for everything mono for a long time and can recommend it. But this font might be great too. Any Droid Sans Mono lovers out there?
- Daneel_
I know it's a ridiculous thing to say, but the fact that I can customise the font so well on the website only to then not be able to download it like that is a crime. I don't want to muck about with npm just to build a font - do it on the site! /rant
- neutronenkind
oh thats a good one!
- GCUMstlyHarmls
First time I used Iosevka I felt really nauseated, kind of like getting motion sickness, it was a really bizarre experience for a font to give me. I was on a smaller screen though and getting some more characters in without getting tiny was actually a selling point, so I gave it another go and eventually got over the feeling.
Now (after ... gosh, 6, 7, 8? years probably) I love it, use it everywhere and other monospace font feels super w i d e and weird.
- chiefwilsion
the font never worked right for me. the variants were not recognized in vscode