nerd-fonts/patched-fonts/Agave/img/font-info.md

• agave

*** about

agave is a fixed-width outline typeface, designed by https://b.agaric.net/about][type agaric.

Free to use, peruse, and diffuse. Everything (font files, glyph designs, glyph databases, and documentation) is released under the https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agarick/agave/master/LICENSE][MIT license.

more about: https://b.agaric.net/page/agave

*** status (ver. 10)

• regular:

  • done: ascii; latin ext; greek; cyrillic; math; ipa; arrows; box; powerline; etc.
  • todo: more glyphs here and there

• bold:

  • /in progress (agave-b.ttf not ready for regular use)/

• italic:

  • /yet to be designed/

*** distribution

The =ttf= font files are placed in =dist/=.

• Variants are named =agave-?.ttf=, where =?= stands for =r=, =b=, =i=, or =z=, representing =regular=, =bold=, =italic=, and =bold+italic= respectively.
• Only the =r= variant is usable as of yet.

Source templates, designs, and databases can be found in =src/=.

*** preview

glyph distinction, in ASCII:

geometric rationale, sampling the regular Latin letter "b":

terminal:

literary text, sampling ASCII, Greek, and Cyrillic:

*** naming

• "Agave" refers either to the green plant or to the daughter of Kadmos in mythology.
• Agave is sister to https://github.com/agarick/autonoe][autonoe and https://github.com/agarick/ino][ino.
• type agaric opted for a slightly eponymic name for their first typeface.

*** discussion

Feedback, questions, suggestions, etc. are welcome and encouraged.

Feel free to use the https://github.com/agarick/agave/issues][issue tracker or contact type agaric via email at =agaric@protonmail.com=.

*** thanks

... foremost to the respective persons/teams behind FontForge and Inkscape, as I relied on the two programs to design, draw, and generate agave,

to GitHub for hosting this repo,

and to all the users ♥

Which font?

TL;DR

• 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.
  • If you want to have bigger icons (usually around 1.5 normal letters wide) pick a font without 'Mono' suffix. Most terminals support this, but ymmv.

Ligatures

Ligatures are generally preserved in the patched fonts. Nerd Fonts v2.0.0 had no ligatures in the Nerd Font Mono fonts, this has been dropped with v2.1.0. If you have a ligature-aware terminal and don't want ligatures you can (usually) disable them in the terminal settings.

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

• For a stable version download a font package from the release page
• Or download the development version from the complete folder here

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 or you want the font with just Font Awesome and Devicons.

For more information see: The FAQ