NOTICE: github namespace recently changed from agarick to blobject.

version 37, 06 jan 2021

agave is a fixed-width outline typeface, designed and produced by type agaric.

Free to use, peruse, and diffuse – everything (font files, glyph designs, glyph databases, and documentation) is released under the MIT license.

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

The .ttf font files can be found at either of:

• https://github.com/blobject/agave/releases/latest
• https://github.com/blobject/agave/tree/master/dist

Please install according to common procedures specified by your platform. Maybe these pages might help: repology, howtogeek.

• 2160x1440 screen resolution, 200 dpi, freetype v2.10.4, libXft v2.3.3, libpng v1.6.37, gimp v2.10.20

glyph distinction in ASCII

code, sampling C syntax (emacs v27.1, height 55)

terminal (alacritty v0.6.0, size 5.5)

literary text, sampling ASCII, Greek, Cyrillic, and Czech (alacritty v0.6.0, size 5.5)

cataclysm: dark days ahead (alacritty v0.6.0, size 5.5)

unicode (alacritty v0.6.0, size 5.5)

in the wild:
(particular glyph shapes may be out of date)

• https://www.programmingfonts.org/#agave
• https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/hb4ib9/i3gaps_pywal_is_a_blessing/
• https://k1ss.org/screenshots (Mike Emanuelli’s)
• https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/ft1iu5/stumpwm_preparing_for_the_end_times/
• https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1266904#p1266904

For example, with the Regular variant:

• Open src/agave-r.sfd in FontForge.
• Click File –> Generate Fonts –> pick TrueType, No Bitmap Fonts, No Rename –> Options: pick TrueType Hints, PS Glyph Names, OpenType –> Generate.
  • You might see (and can ignore, I think) some warnings about non-integral coordinates, etc.
• Hint the generated font file using ttfautohint.
  • Assuming the generated file is raw.ttf, run ttfautohint -v -t raw.ttf Agave-Regular.ttf

• type agaric opted for a slightly eponymic name for their first typeface.
• “Agave” refers either to the green plant or to the daughter of Kadmos in mythology.
• agave is sister to autonoe and ino.

Feel free to use the issue tracker to voice your feedback, questions, and suggestions. Or contact type agaric via email at agaric@protonmail.com.

… foremost to bc, Inkscape, ttfautohint, and FontForge as I relied on them to respectively measure, draw, hint, and generate agave,

to GitHub for hosting this repo,

and to all the users ♥