agave is a fixed-width outline typeface, designed by type agaric.
Free to use, peruse, and diffuse. Everything (font files, glyph designs, glyph databases, and documentation) is released under the MIT license.
more about: https://b.agaric.net/page/agave
- regular:
- done: ascii; latin ext; greek; cyrillic; math; ipa; arrows; box; powerline; etc.
- todo: more glyphs here and there
- bold:
- in progress (not ready for use)
- italic:
- yet to be designed
The Agave-*.ttf
font file(s) can be found on the releases page or in the dist/
folder in the source.
Install according to platform-specific procedures (howtogeek.com).
IMPORTANT: Font naming and identification changed in version 11. If you have an older version installed, please remove it before installing a recent version.
(For example, with the regular variant)
- open
src/r/agave-r.sfd
in FontForge - click File –> Generate Fonts –> pick TrueType, No Bitmap Fonts, No Rename –> Generate
- (assuming
Agave-Regular-nohint.ttf
has been generated) run:ttfautohint -v -t Agave-Regular-nohint.ttf Agave-Regular.ttf
- the final
Agave-Regular.ttf
should be ready for use
glyph distinction, in ASCII:
geometric rationale, sampling the regular Latin letter “b”:
terminal:
literary text, sampling ASCII, Greek, and Cyrillic:
- “Agave” refers either to the green plant or to the daughter of Kadmos in mythology.
- Agave is sister to autonoe and ino.
- type agaric opted for a slightly eponymic name for their first typeface.
Feedback, questions, suggestions, etc. are welcome and encouraged.
Feel free to use the issue tracker or contact type agaric via email at [email protected]
.
… foremost to the respective persons/teams behind Inkscape, ttfautohint, and FontForge as I relied on them to respectively draw, hint, and generate agave,
to GitHub for hosting this repo,
and to all the users ♥