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**Iosevka** is an *open-source*, *sans-serif* + *slab-serif*, *monospace* + *quasi‑proportional* typeface family, designed for *writing code*, using in *terminals*, and preparing *technical documents*.

## Installation

### Installing via Package Managers

* **macOS**
    * Standard distribution in Homebrew:
      ```bash
      brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
      brew install --cask font-iosevka
      ```
    * Search for other variants using `brew search font-iosevka` and install what you want.
    * Customizable install using Homebrew: see [robertgzr/homebrew-tap](https://github.com/robertgzr/homebrew-tap).
  * **Linux**
    * Arch Linux: Install one of the [ttc-iosevka packages](https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=ttc-iosevka).
    * Void Linux: Install the font with `xbps-install font-iosevka`.
    * Fedora: Install the font(s) from [the COPR here](https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/peterwu/iosevka/). Run `dnf search iosevka` to discover available fonts and `dnf install` to install the chosen one(s).
  * **FreeBSD**: The font can be installed with `pkg install iosevka`.
  * **OpenBSD**: Run `pkg_info -Q iosevka` to see which Iosevka packages are available. Use `pkg_add` to install the chosen package(s).

### Manual Installation

1. Download your font package from [releases](https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/releases).
2. Quit all your editors / programs.
3. Unarchive the font package and you will see the font files.
4. Take actions depending on your OS:
    * **Windows**: Select the font files and drag into font [settings](ms-settings:fonts) / font control panel page.  
      * On Windows 10 1809 or newer, the default font installation is per-user, and it may cause compatibility issues for some applications, mostly written in Java. To cope with this, right click and select “Install for all users” instead. [Ref.](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JRE-1166?p=IDEA-200145)
    * **macOS**: [Follow instructions here](http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2509).
    * **Linux** : Copy the font files to your fonts directory then run `sudo fc-cache`.

## Features

In the official package, Iosevka provides 6 monospace subfamilies (sans-serif and slab-serif, each in the 3 spacings Default, Term and Fixed) and 2 quasi-proportional subfamilies (Aile (sans-serif) and Etoile (slab-serif)). In all the monospace subfamilies, 9 weights (Thin to Heavy), 2 widths (Normal and Extended), and 3 slopes (Upright, Italic and Oblique) are included. In the quasi-proportional subfamilies, the quantity of widths is reduced to 1.

![Weights sample](images/weights.light.svg#gh-light-mode-only)![Weights sample](images/weights.dark.svg#gh-dark-mode-only)

All versions include the same ranges of characters: Latin letters, Greek letters (including Polytonic), some Cyrillic letters, IPA symbols and common punctuations and some symbols. You can check out the full list [here](http://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/specimen).

![Languages Sample](images/languages.light.svg#gh-light-mode-only)![Languages Sample](images/languages.dark.svg#gh-dark-mode-only)

165 Supported Languages:

Afrikaans, Aghem, Akan, Albanian, Asturian, Asu, Azerbaijani, Bafia, Bambara, Basaa, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Bena, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Central Atlas Tamazight, Chechen, Chiga, Colognian, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Duala, Dutch, Embu, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Ewondo, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Fulah, Galician, Ganda, German, Greek, Gusii, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hindi (hi_latn), Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish, Italian, Javanese, Jola-Fonyi, Kabuverdianu, Kabyle, Kaingang, Kako, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kazakh, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Koyra Chiini, Koyraboro Senni, Kurdish, Kwasio, Kyrgyz, Lakota, Langi, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Low German, Lower Sorbian, Luba-Katanga, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Macedonian, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Masai, Meru, Metaʼ, Mongolian, Morisyen, Mundang, Māori, Nama, Ngiemboon, Nheengatu, Nigerian Pidgin, North Ndebele, Northern Sami, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nuer, Nyankole, Oromo, Ossetic, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Russian, Rwa, Sakha, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Serbian, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Tachelhit (shi_latn), Taita, Tajik, Tasawaq, Tatar, Teso, Tongan, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Upper Sorbian, Uzbek, Vai (vai_latn), Vietnamese, Vunjo, Walser, Welsh, Western Frisian, Wolof, Xhosa, Yangben, Yoruba, Zarma, Zulu

### Stylistic Sets

Monospace Iosevka contains various stylistic sets to change the shape of certain characters. Enabling corresponded OpenType feature to enable.

<table><tr><td><h2><a href="doc/stylistic-sets.md">View list of stylistic sets of Iosevka.</a></h2></td></tr></table>

### Character Variants

Alongside stylistic sets, Monospace Iosevka can also be configured to cherry-pick variants for each character using OpenType. The variants are shown below. To enable, assign the feature tag to the variant index. For example, setting `cv26` to `6` will enable single-storey `a`.

**Caution :**  Certain software may limit the quantity of OpenType features and drop some of them if the feature list is too long. Please validate your feature configuration to ensure that it worked in your software.

<table><tr><td><h2><a href="doc/character-variants.md">View list of character variants of Iosevka.</a></h2></td></tr></table>

### Ligations

Monospace subfamilies support ligations. Iosevka’s default ligation set is assigned to `calt` feature, though not all of them are enabled by default.

<table>
<tr>
<td><code>calt off</td>
<td>Ligation Off</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><img src="images/ligset-calt-0.light.svg#gh-light-mode-only"/><img src="images/ligset-calt-0.dark.svg#gh-dark-mode-only"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>calt</code></td>
<td>Default setting in text editors</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><img src="images/ligset-calt-1.light.svg#gh-light-mode-only"/><img src="images/ligset-calt-1.dark.svg#gh-dark-mode-only"/></td>
</tr>
</table>

Iosevka supports Language-Specific Ligations, which is the ligation set enabled only under certain languages. These ligation sets are assigned to custom feature tags. To use them, you need to turn **off** `calt` and enable the corresponded feature. The feature list is:

<table><tr><td><h2><a href="doc/language-specific-ligation-sets.md">View list of language-specific ligations.</a></h2></td></tr></table>

Please note that, due to the complex interactions when forming ligations, cherry-picking ligation groups will require a custom Iosevka build. The instructions could be seen below.

## Building from Source

<table><tr><td><h2><a href="doc/custom-build.md">Read instructions.</a></h2></td></tr></table>

## For Chinese and Japanese users...

→ [Sarasa Gothic](https://github.com/be5invis/Sarasa-Gothic).

## Mirrors

- TUNA (CN): https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/github-release/be5invis/Iosevka
- NJU (CN): https://mirrors.nju.edu.cn/github-release/be5invis/Iosevka
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