Iosevka Generate

Iosevka Generate is a tool to generate your own Iosevka font for you.

Iosevka is a fantastic 'for code from code' font, for which all credit goes to Belleve Invis - this repo is merely a helper script to leverage others' hard work.

NB: Iosevka itself now has a TOML spec for font building, which can now be used as the input to iosevka-generate. The remaining added value is:

• handle acquiring & installing repo and dependencies automatically
• similarly auto-storing/re-caching the generated font
• patch with nerd font (currently in INI format only, cf. #8)

Usage

In your $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (or $HOME/.config) create iosevka/my-font.toml in Iosevka's 'private-build-plans' TOML format (recommended), or iosevka/config.ini in INI format (which may be removed in the future) such as:

[options]
    name = myosevka
    serifs = sans
    ligset = haskell
    nerdfont = fontawesome powerline material octicons

[common]
    l = hooky

[upright]
    q = straight
    zero = slashed

[italic]
    i = hooky
    at = fourfold

[oblique]
    g = opendoublestory
    numbersign = slanted

This format is kept only for backwards compatibility - it is recommended to use private-build-plans.toml format now that it exists; which supports many more options than our INI format ever did, such as restricting widths/weights (helpful to reduce build time for a monospace/term only font).

In the TOML format, nerdfont options can be specified with an iosevka-generate options section:

[buildPlans.myosevka.iosevka-generate]
nerdfont = ["fontawesome", "powerline", "material", "octicons"]

For the rest of the (upstream) options, Iosevka Customizer is a handy tool to generate the plan visually, or even just to familiarise yourself with the format and sorts of options available.

Installation

If you clone this repo, you can just create a symbolic link to the contained script somewhere on your $PATH:

ln -s $CLONED_DIR/iosevka-generate /usr/local/bin/iosevka-generate

On Arch, use the PKGBUILD script in this repo or from the AUR.

On macOS, use the brew formula:

brew install OJFord/formulae/iosevka-generate

Licence

The helper tool in this repository is licensed according to the LICENCE.md contained within.

This tool retrieves and makes use of the Iosevka font and supporting build tooling, which are copyright of Belle Invis and licensed as described in that project's repository.

Nerd Font is (optionally) used for patching additional glyphs, and is copyright of Ryan L. McIntyre and licensed as described in that project's repository.