Chinese and Japanese users → [Inziu Iosevka for Chinese and Japanese.](http://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/inziu.html) (A **hinted** Composite with M+ and Source Han Sans.)
## Installation
Quit your editor/program. Unzip and open the folder.
* **[Instructions for Windows](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Typography/TrueTypeInstall.aspx)**
* **[Instructions for macOS](http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2509)**
* Standard distribution in Homebrew: `brew tap caskroom/fonts && brew cask install font-iosevka` (May be outdated).
* Customizable install using Homebrew: see [robertgzr/homebrew-tap](https://github.com/robertgzr/homebrew-tap).
* **Linux** : Copy the TTF files to your fonts directory → Run `sudo fc-cache`.
- Arch Linux users can install the font from the AUR [here](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-iosevka) using an AUR wrapper or by doing it manually. [All variants](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=nd&K=ttf-iosevka&SB=n&SO=a&PP=50&do_Search=Go).
- Void Linux users can install the font with `xbps-install font-iosevka`.
## Weights, Variants and OpenType features
The typeface contains seven weights (thin, extra-light, light, regular, medium, bold and heavy) alongside with both italic and oblique versions, with the same metrics as the regular one.
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.html).
Iosevka’s default ligation set is assigned to `calt` feature, though not all of them are enabled by default.
Iosevka supports Language-Specific Ligations, which is the ligation set enabled only under certain languages. These ligation sets are assigned to custom feature tags, like `XHS0`.
## Building from Source
To build Iosevka you should:
1. Ensure that [`nodejs`](http://nodejs.org) (≥ 8.4), [`ttfautohint`](http://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/), [`otfcc`](https://github.com/caryll/otfcc) (≥ 0.9.3) and GNU `make` (≥ 4.1; BSD `make` may not work) are runnable in your terminal.
- Windows users may need to install MinGW and make POSIX utilities accessible (`mkdir.exe`, `cp.exe`, `cat.exe` and `rm.exe`, in particular) from Command Prompt. Utilities provided by [Git for Windows](https://git-for-windows.github.io/) or MSYS2 works fine.
2. Install necessary libs by `npm install`. If you’ve installed them, upgrade to the latest.
3.`make` (or `gmake`).
You will find TTFs in the `dist/` directory.
### Building the Web Font
The `webfonts/` directory is used to build Iosevka for web font uses. To build the web fonts you should:
1. Build Iosevka.
2. Ensure that `sfnt2woff` and `woff2_compress` are installed and runnable.
3. Run `make web` .
The web fonts will be generated into `dist/iosevka/web` and `dist/iosevka-slab/web`.
Iosevka comes with several visual styles, however they are inactive using the default build. To build these variants, you should perform custom build:
1.`make custom-config [set=<name>]` with the parameters listed below to create a configuration. The `set=<name>` part is optional, it will be set to `custom` when absent.
2.`make custom [set=<name>]` to acquire your custom font.
-`make custom-web [set=<name>]` is for web fonts.
The first step, `make custom-config` takes following parameters to set styles of your custom build. All of them are optional, and would default to Iosevka’s default configuration:
*`design='<styles>'`, styles for your custom font set.
*`upright='<styles>'`, styles for uprights only.
*`italic='<styles>'`, styles for italics only.
*`oblique='<styles>'`, styles for obliques only.
You can add arbitary styles for these variables, for example, `make custom-config upright='v-l-zshaped v-i-zshaped' && make custom` will create a variant with Z-shaped letter `l` and `i` for uprights.
The current available styles are:
* Styles for general shape:
*`sans` : Sans serif (default).
*`slab` : Slab serif. When present, the family of your font would be `Iosevka Slab`.
* Styles related to ligations and spacing:
-`term` : Disable ligations. When this style is present, the font built will not contain ligatures, and its family name will be set to “`Iosevka Term`”. In case of your OS or editor cannot handle ligatures correctly, you can disable ligations with it.
-`type` : Make some symbols, like arrows (`→`) and mathematical operators full-width.
-`stress-fw` : When included, full-width characters varying form `U+FF00` to `U+FFFF` will be boxed to present a clear distinguish between ASCII and Full-width. The family name will be set to “`Iosevka StFW`”.
* All registered `ss##` and `cv##` feature tags, including:
*`ss01`~`ss10` : Predefined stylistic sets based on other Monospace fonts.
*`cv01`~`cv45` : Standalone character variants.
* Styles for ligation sets, include:
*`ligset-haskell`: Default ligation set would be assigned to Haskell.
*`ligset-idris`: Default ligation set would be assigned to Idris.
*`ligset-coq`: Default ligation set would be assigned to Coq.
*`ligset-elm`: Default ligation set would be assigned to Elm.
*`ligset-ml`: Default ligation set would be assigned to ML.
*`ligset-fs`: Default ligation set would be assigned to F#.
*`ligset-fstar`: Default ligation set would be assigned to F\*.
*`ligset-swift`: Default ligation set would be assigned to Swift.
*`ligset-purescript`: Default ligation set would be assigned to PureScript.
* Styles for individual characters. They are easy-to-understand names of the `cv##` styles, including:
* Styles for letter `l`:
*`v-l-hooky` : Hooky `l`.
*`v-l-zshaped` : Z-shaped `l`.
*`v-l-serifed` : Serifed `l` (default for upright and oblique).
*`v-l-italic` : Italic `l` (default for italic).
*`v-l-tailed` : `l` with a curved tail.
*`v-l-hookybottom` : `l` with a straight tail.
* Styles for letter `i`:
*`v-i-hooky` : Hooky `i`.
*`v-i-zshaped` : Z-shaped `i`.
*`v-i-serifed` : Serifed `i` (default for upright and oblique).
*`v-i-italic` : Italic `i` (default for italic).
* Styles for letter `a`:
*`v-a-doublestorey` : Double-storey `a` (default for upright and oblique).
*`v-a-singlestorey` : Single-storey `a` (default for italic).
* Styles for letter `g`:
*`v-g-doublestorey` : Double-storey `g` (default for upright and oblique).
*`v-g-singlestorey` : Single-storey `g` (default for italic).
*`v-g-opendoublestorey` : Open Double-storey `g`.
* Styles for letter `m`:
*`v-m-longleg` : `m` with long middle leg (default).
*`v-m-shortleg` : `m` with shorter middle leg.
* Styles for letter `t`:
*`v-t-standard` : Standard `t` shape (default).
*`v-t-cross` : Futura-like `t` shape.
* Styles for letter `Q`:
*`v-q-taily` : `Q` with a curly tail (default).
*`v-q-straight` : `Q` with a straight tail in the old versions.
* Styles for zero (`0`):
*`v-zero-slashed` : Slashed Zero `0` (default).
*`v-zero-dotted` : Dotted Zero `0`.
*`v-zero-unslashed` : O-like `0`.
* Styles for ASCII tilde (`~`), asterisk (`*`), paragaraph(`¶`), underscore (`_`) and ASCII Caret (^):
* Pick your font family and then select from the `'complete'` directory.
* If you are on Windows pick a font with the `'Windows Compatible'` suffix.
* This includes specific tweaks to ensure the font works on Windows, in particular monospace identification and font name length limitations
* If you are limited to monospaced fonts (because of your terminal, etc) then pick a font with the `'Mono'` suffix.
* This denotes that the Nerd Font glyphs will be monospaced not necessarily that the entire font will be monospaced
### Explanation
Once you narrow down your font choice of family (`Droid Sans`, `Inconsolata`, etc) and style (`bold`, `italic`, etc) you have 2 main choices:
#### `Option 1: Download already patched font`
* download an already patched font from the `complete` folder
* This is most likely the one you want. It includes **all** of the glyphs from all of the glyph sets. Only caution here is that some fonts have glyphs in the _same_ code point so to include everything some had to be moved to alternate code points.
#### `Option 2: Patch your own font`
* patch your own variations with the various options provided by the font patcher (see each font's readme for full list of combinations available)
* This is the option you want if the font you use is _not_ already included or you want maximum control of what's included
* This contains a list of _all permutations_ of the various glyphs. E.g. You want the font with only [Octicons][octicons] or you want the font with just [Font Awesome][font-awesome] and [Devicons][vorillaz-devicons]. The goal is to provide every combination possible in this folder.
For more information see: [The FAQ](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/wiki/FAQ-and-Troubleshooting#which-font)
