Iosvmata

Download

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You can download the ttf files from the releases tab (grab the .tar.zst file).

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What, Why, How?

If you like clean, upright looking fonts, then the chances are that you've come across Iosevka. You've probably also come across PragmataPro.

Both of these fonts are great in their own right but they both suffer from one fatal flaw - they're way too condensed for me to use for prolonged period of time without eye strain.

The good news is that Iosevka provides an "Extended" variant which has wider spacing. However it's a bit too wide, which takes away from the slender feel of Iosevka.

Iosevka however, isn't just a font family. It's more or less a full framework where you can pick and choose and customize just about everything. And so that's precisely what I did.

The Iosvmata config is based on Pragmasevka, which tries to mimic PragmataPro as much as possible. The main goal of Iosvmata is to take things I like from Iosevka and PragmataPro but patch out things I don't like. Some notable changes (not exhaustive, see Iosvmata.toml for a full config):

• Use a width of 550 which is just extended enough to not strain my eyes but not too extended so that it takes away the condensed feel of Iosevka/PragmataPro. (For reference, Iosevka Extended uses 600 and Pragmasevka uses 500).
• Uses the regular slashed 0.
• Capital J has bar on top.
• Uses the more "sharp" looking braces.
• No ligatures.
• A lot more non-alphanumeric characters are boldened compared to Pragmasevka (see bolder.py).

Build Instruction

Building the font yourself is not necessary since I provide ttf files in the release page. But if you'd like to customize the font further, e.g add ligatures or change spacing etc, then you can build the font yourself by following the steps below:

1. Follow these instructions to build the font out of Iosvmata.toml config.
2. Run the bolder.py script.
3. Optionally patch the final font with Nerd-Font-Patcher (search for FontPatcher.zip).

See also: Iosevka customizer in order to customize the config interactively.

Thanks to

• Pragmasevka: This project is pretty much a fork of Pragmasevka. So massive thanks to it for laying the groundwork.

How to extract .tar.zst

Linux/BSD/macos

0. Install the zstd package (if you don't have it installed already).
1. Run tar -I zstd -xf Iosvmata.tar.zst.

Windows

If you want a GUI then 7-zip-zstd (.exe download here) seems to be the recommended tool.

If you are comfortable with command-line, zstd provides official builds for windows including a zstd.exe.

ChangeLog v1.2.0

• Switched paren to "normal" from "large-contour".
• Switched caret to "low".

ChangeLog v1.0.1

• Do not export glyph names (slight decrease in font sizes).