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Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif, monospace font

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The Iosevka’s monospace family is provided in a slender outfit by default: glyphs are exactly 1/2em wide. Compared to the competitors, you could fit more columns within the same screen width.

Iosevka provides two widths, Normal and Extended. If you prefer more breeze between the character, choose Extended and enjoy.

# UCD DATA Section
00B0 ; DEGREE SIGN                                ; So ; 0 ; ET ;                           ;  ;   ;     ; N ;                                   ;  ;      ;      ;
00B1 ; PLUS-MINUS SIGN                            ; Sm ; 0 ; ET ;                           ;  ;   ;     ; N ; PLUS-OR-MINUS SIGN                ;  ;      ;      ;
00B2 ; SUPERSCRIPT TWO                            ; No ; 0 ; EN ; <super> 0032              ;  ; 2 ; 2   ; N ; SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT TWO             ;  ;      ;      ;
00B3 ; SUPERSCRIPT THREE                          ; No ; 0 ; EN ; <super> 0033              ;  ; 3 ; 3   ; N ; SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT THREE           ;  ;      ;      ;
00B4 ; ACUTE ACCENT                               ; Sk ; 0 ; ON ; <compat> 0020 0301        ;  ;   ;     ; N ; SPACING ACUTE                     ;  ;      ;      ;
00B5 ; MICRO SIGN                                 ; Ll ; 0 ; L  ; <compat> 03BC             ;  ;   ;     ; N ;                                   ;  ; 039C ;      ; 039C
00B6 ; PILCROW SIGN                               ; Po ; 0 ; ON ;                           ;  ;   ;     ; N ; PARAGRAPH SIGN                    ;  ;      ;      ;
00B7 ; MIDDLE DOT                                 ; Po ; 0 ; ON ;                           ;  ;   ;     ; N ;                                   ;  ;      ;      ;
00B8 ; CEDILLA                                    ; Sk ; 0 ; ON ; <compat> 0020 0327        ;  ;   ;     ; N ; SPACING CEDILLA                   ;  ;      ;      ;
00B9 ; SUPERSCRIPT ONE                            ; No ; 0 ; EN ; <super> 0031              ;  ; 1 ; 1   ; N ; SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT ONE             ;  ;      ;      ;
00BA ; MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR                ; Lo ; 0 ; L  ; <super> 006F              ;  ;   ;     ; N ;                                   ;  ;      ;      ;
00BB ; RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK ; Pf ; 0 ; ON ;                           ;  ;   ;     ; Y ; RIGHT POINTING GUILLEMET          ;  ;      ;      ;
00BC ; VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER                ; No ; 0 ; ON ; <fraction> 0031 2044 0034 ;  ;   ; 1/4 ; N ; FRACTION ONE QUARTER              ;  ;      ;      ;
00BD ; VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF                   ; No ; 0 ; ON ; <fraction> 0031 2044 0032 ;  ;   ; 1/2 ; N ; FRACTION ONE HALF                 ;  ;      ;      ;
00BE ; VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS             ; No ; 0 ; ON ; <fraction> 0033 2044 0034 ;  ;   ; 3/4 ; N ; FRACTION THREE QUARTERS           ;  ;      ;      ;
00BF ; INVERTED QUESTION MARK                     ; Po ; 0 ; ON ;                           ;  ;   ;     ; N ;                                   ;  ;      ;      ;
00C0 ; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE          ; Lu ; 0 ; L  ; 0041 0300                 ;  ;   ;     ; N ; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A GRAVE      ;  ;      ; 00E0 ;
00C1 ; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE          ; Lu ; 0 ; L  ; 0041 0301                 ;  ;   ;     ; N ; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A ACUTE      ;  ;      ; 00E1 ;
00C2 ; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX     ; Lu ; 0 ; L  ; 0041 0302                 ;  ;   ;     ; N ; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A CIRCUMFLEX ;  ;      ; 00E2 ;
00C3 ; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE          ; Lu ; 0 ; L  ; 0041 0303                 ;  ;   ;     ; N ; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A TILDE      ;  ;      ; 00E3 ;
00C4 ; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS      ; Lu ; 0 ; L  ; 0041 0308                 ;  ;   ;     ; N ; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A DIAERESIS  ;  ;      ; 00E4 ;
00C5 ; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE     ; Lu ; 0 ; L  ; 0041 030A                 ;  ;   ;     ; N ; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A RING       ;  ;      ; 00E5 ;
00C6 ; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE                    ; Lu ; 0 ; L  ;                           ;  ;   ;     ; N ; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A E          ;  ;      ; 00E6 ;
00C7 ; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA        ; Lu ; 0 ; L  ; 0043 0327                 ;  ;   ;     ; N ; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C CEDILLA    ;  ;      ; 00E7 ;
00C8 ; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE          ; Lu ; 0 ; L  ; 0045 0300                 ;  ;   ;     ; N ; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E GRAVE      ;  ;      ; 00E8 ;
00C9 ; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE          ; Lu ; 0 ; L  ; 0045 0301                 ;  ;   ;     ; N ; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E ACUTE      ;  ;      ; 00E9 ;

Code and Terminal

Terminal emulators have a stricter compatibility requirements for fonts. Therefore, Iosevka and Iosevka Slab all contain two specialized families, Term and Fixed, targeting terminal users.

In these families, the symbols will be narrower to follow terminals’ ideology of column count. In the Fixed families, the ligation will be disabled to ensure better compatibility in certain environments.

Iosevka

∑ { n ∈ ▲ } 🅇(n) ○-> Ⓨ[n] ▢△◈

Iosevka Term

∑ { n ∈ ▲ } 🅇(n) ○-> Ⓨ[n] ▢△◈

Iosevka Fixed

∑ { n ∈ ▲ } 🅇(n) ○-> Ⓨ[n] ▢△◈

Variants à la Carte

Iosevka provides 146 configurable characters with 19 stylistic sets, which gives you incredible ability to customize one variant that fills exactly what you need. You can either select one pre-defined stylistic set, or cherry-pick your flavor.

ABC.DEF.GHI.JKL.MNO.PQRS.TUV.WXYZ abc.def.ghi.jkl.mno.pqrs.tuv.wxyz
!iIlL17|¦ ¢coO08BDQ $5SZ2zs ∂96µm float il1[]={1-2/3.4,5+6=7/8%90};
1234567890 ,._-+= >< «¯-¬_» ~–÷+× {*}[]()<>`+-=$/#_%^@\&|~?'" !,.;:
¶❯ Þẞðþſß ΓΔΛαβγδζηθικλμνξπςτυφχψ ЖЗКНРУЭЯавжзклмнруфчьыэя <= != ==

Cherry-Picking

Coding Ligations

Iosevka’s monospace families supports not only one ligation set, but also language-specific ligations. Enable the corresponded OpenType feature in your editor, and the correct ligation will appear.

Leveraging advanced OpenType techniques, Iosevka also supports long ligatures like long arrows or horizontal bars built up with equal signs.

For Every Writing

The quasi-proportional families: Iosevka Aile, and Iosevka Etoile, are made for documents and writing. They provide more variety on character widths, including a slightly wider letter w and m, and narrower i and l.

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