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 ♥