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
- version 14
- regular:
- glyph count: 1963
- ascii; latin ext; greek; cyrillic; math; ipa; arrows; box; powerline; etc.
- bold:
- in progress, not ready for use
- italic:
- yet to be designed
- bold & 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 more recent one.
glyph distinction, in ASCII:
geometric rationale, sampling the regular Latin letter “b”:
terminal:
literary text, sampling ASCII, Greek, and Cyrillic:
(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
unhinted.ttf
has been generated) run:ttfautohint -v -t unhinted.ttf Agave-Regular.ttf
- the final
Agave-Regular.ttf
should be ready for use
- “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 ♥