agave is a fixed-width outline typeface, designed and produced 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, version 32
- glyph count: 2440
- ascii; latin ext; greek; cyrillic; ipa; math; arrows; box-drawing; braille; powerline; misc.
- bold, version 0
- glyph count: 5
- in progress, not ready for use
- italic, version ?
- bold & italic, version ?
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.
The Agave-*.ttf font file(s) can be found on the releases page or in the dist/ folder in the source.
Please install according to common procedures specified by your platform. Maybe this page from howtogeek.com might help.
images are of Regular, version 32
- 2160x1440 screen resolution, 200 dpi, freetype v2.10.4, libXft v2.3.3, gimp v2.10.20
ASCII (alacritty v0.5.0, size 5.5)
code, sampling C syntax (emacs v27.1, height 55)
geometric rationale, sampling the ascii “c”:
terminal (alacritty v0.5.0, size 5.5)
literary text, sampling ascii, Greek, and Cyrillic (alacritty v0.5.0, size 5.5)
unicode (alacritty v0.5.0, size 5.5)
in the wild:
- https://www.programmingfonts.org/#agave
- https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/hb4ib9/i3gaps_pywal_is_a_blessing/
- https://k1ss.org/screenshots (Mike Emanuelli’s)
- https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/ft1iu5/stumpwm_preparing_for_the_end_times/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/a1hia1/i3gaps_oblivion/
(For example, with the regular variant)
- Open
src/agave-r.sfdin FontForge. - Click File –> Generate Fonts –> pick TrueType, No Bitmap Fonts, No Rename –> Generate.
- You might see (and can ignore, I think) some warnings about non-integral coordinates, etc.
- Hint the generated font file using ttfautohint.
- Assuming the generated file is
raw.ttf, runttfautohint -v -t raw.ttf Agave-Regular.ttf
- Assuming the generated file is
- “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 agaric@protonmail.com.
… foremost to 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 ♥