Agave

version 38, 20 jun 2026

download	Regular	Bold
size	271KB	95KB
dotted zero	Agave-Regular.ttf	Agave-Bold.ttf
slashed zero	Agave-Regular-slashed.ttf	Agave-Bold-slashed.ttf

agave is a fixed-width outline typeface family, designed and produced by type agaric. Started as an educational and experimental endeavor, agave remains a hobby project, aiming to bring to development environments and terminals a typographic style that is geometrically regular and simple.

More description at: https://b.agaric.net/page/agave

progress	glyph count	(partially) implemented ranges
Regular	2443	ascii, latin ext, greek, cyrillic, ipa, math, arrows, box-drawing, braille, powerline, others
Bold	96	ascii
Italic	15	not ready
BoldItalic	2	not ready

licensing

• pub/*, any documentation anywhere in the project
  • MIT License
• dist/*, src/*
  • SIL Open Font License 1.1

(In this listing's implicit filtering, MIT license takes precedence.)

install

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.

build

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 --> confirm --> 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

sample

• 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)

naming

• 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.

changelog

For a record of changes to agave since the start of the project, see CHANGES.

discussion

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

thanks

... 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 ♥