iaolo / ia-fonts

Free variable writing fonts from iA

iA-Fonts

The iA Writer fonts comes bundled with iA Writer for for Android, Windows, Mac, iPadOS and iOS

For in depth explanation of iA Writer Mono, Duo, and Quattro please read our blog entry on Duospace and on iA Writer Mono, Duo, and Quattro

This is a modification of IBM's Plex font. The upstream project is here Please read the licensing file before working with it.

If you fork or use our fonts, please reference iA Writer clearly. Use them creatively.

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ia-fonts's Issues

where are the source files?

Incorrect space with m and w

Hi, I use windows 10, and I see that the letters m and w have a bad space with the next letter, they appear very close, as you can see in the attached image.

I hope it serves to solve this as it is well made letters for reading.

Thank you.

Plex curly braces {} are so bad

Hi, seeing how you've fixed other things inherited from the IBM Plex Mono font, such as the lowercase f being square, could you also consider making sane curly braces please?

I love iA Writer, and I've been configuring my other text editors (Vim, VS Code) after its looks for years, Nitti and all. However, coding in any C-style language with the Lovecraftian Plex squigglies is inconceivable.

Thanks for making great software BTW!

iA Quattro V and font weights when toggling italics

I've installed iA Quattro V system-wide on my Mac. (I've also installed it into a few apps on my iPad.) If I'm typing with the 'Regular' font weight, then hit Cmd-I for italics, type something, and hit Cmd-I to go back to roman type, it switches into the 'Text' font weight instead of 'Regular'. This is very disconcerting.

Provide web font versions of iA Writer Duospace

It would be useful to have official eot/woff/woff2 versions of iA Writer Duospace similar to Plex’s web version.

Via this tweet.

Greek is missing from iA Writer Mono

I'm guessing this wasn't intentional since the Duo and Quattro fonts have it?

fonts.css for Quattro?

It would be useful if Quattro was bundled with a fonts.css similar to the one that is included with Duospace.

Installation in Windows 10

Hi, my name in Jose.
I saw the link to your font in one of the articles, Genbeta' site published last week.
I have downloaded every file from GitHub, but double clinking it says;
'The requested file ... is not a valid font file'
I also tried to copy directly into, Windows 10, folder named 'Font' but it return a similar error;
'The file ... does not appeared to be a valid font'
Could you help me with the installation?
I would really like to try this font for my documents at the school.
Thank you very much for your attention.
Best regards,
Jose.

Font weights incorrect causing issues when changing from bold/italic to regular

The bold and bold/italic fonts have incorrect weight information under the OS/2 metadata. Instead of being set to "Bold" they are set to "Regular".

What this means is when changing from regular to bold or italic, and then back again, it will select bold as the "default" (other issues currently open mention this behavior). This is likely due to the font name for bold being alphabetically before the font name for regular so since we have multiple fonts listed as "regular" weight, it's just defaulting to the first in the list.

Changing this to "bold" for both bold and bold/italic makes these fonts behave as intended. I did so using FontForge, and after generating the fonts with these changes, everything works as intended. However, I'm no font expert, and have no idea if generating them from FontForge is changing anything else, and I have no idea what font program you used to generate them in the first place.

But as it stands, this repo contains great fonts that in this state are impossible to use as they will change to bold in an unexpected manner in a way most users cannot understand.

This is for Quattro — the other fonts I checked seem fine, at least for the static versions.

Fonts Won't Load in Mac OS Monterey

Hi there,

I have downloaded each of the TTF font files, but the Font Book in Mac OS Monterey won't accept them. When I try to force-install them, it advises against it, saying there are serious issues with these fonts.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Also, is there a way to batch-download the fonts rather than clicking/downloading individually?

Thanks,

Mumblequatch

Font licensing

Double check they are compatible and include licenses.

Webkit seems to have problems with iA Writer Duospace

Glyph spacing seems to be calculated incorrectly for the non-monospaced glyphs (w, W, m, M).
See image1 and image2. Not sure if this is a webkit issue or a font problem. Please close if this is a webkit bug.

Cursor and text does not line up correctly with iA Writer Mono S

1. Environment
   OS: Windows 10 version 21H1(build 19043.1083)
   Text editor: Visual Studio Code (version 1.57.1)

2. Description of issue
   When the user goes through a certain set of letters in a line using arrow key in the text editor, the cursor highlights at wrong places.

3. What actually happens (screenshot)
   

4. What's expected to happen
   

5. Other stuffs
   This issue does not happen with iA Writer Duo S, iA Writer Quattro S, iA Writer Duospace. Only affects iA Writer Mono S.
   Also doesn't happen in other text editors, such as Notepad, Notepad++, or Visual Studio

Elipsis, Ats and Copyrights

Elipsis (…), Ats (@), and Copyrights (©) character should be wider.

Duospace variable font available?

Hey there -- and thanks @iaolo so much for open sourcing this repo.

Is Duospace available as a variable font? I’m not seeing it in the repo.

Thanks!

iA Quattro S — Italic Becomes Bold Italic on iOS

When using iA Quattro Statics on iOS (sideloaded with configuration profile), all italic characters are displayed in bold italic instead.

Cannot correctly install Quattro on Windows 11

Neither the Variable nor the Static version can be installed properly in Windows 11. This happens if they are installed via the Win11 font settings or the legacy Control Panel.

Static

• Installing TTFs in bulk or individually, installs only Regular and Bold Italic
• Win 11's font settings displays all 4 variations as installed
• Control panel shows only Regular and Bold Italic
• Only Regular and Bold Italic available in Word and Adobe CC applications

Variable

• Installing the Variable TTFs results in prompt to replace previous font, e.g. installing Italic TTF after Regular results in prompt to replace Quattro Regular font and vice-versa.
• When accepting the replacement, the previous version gets overwritten, e.g. the Italic version overwrites the Regular and vice-versa.

Download / clone link disabled

I arrived at this repository via https://ia.net/topics/in-search-of-the-perfect-writing-font/ and was interested in downloading and trying the font, but it seems the download / clone link has been disabled, forcing me to download each font file individually.

I fear someone less savvy might not figure this out.

I have not install in macOS High Sierra

Hello:

I am trying install this fonts in a macos, but the OS A serious error has been detected. Do not use this fonts. Can you help me, please?

Regards,
Carlos Sanz

Web fonts / iA Writer Quattro / Bold Italic: capital Umlauts do not work

On websites, with Windows (Chrome & Firefox), there seems to be an error with capital umlauts on the Bold Italic subset; they're not being loaded. Works fine on MacOS, of course.

Also, when creating an image with PHP, the same applies.

I hope it's just me. If I can provide anything else or be of help, I'll gladly help. Love this font!

Duo is not duospace

Hi, as is actually already pretty clearly visible in the blog entry on Duo, the font isn't actually duospace. Example: typing two m should require the same space as three i, according to the specifications. It doesn't. Is this by design, or not on purpose? The former would also be absolutely fine, I just find it is a shame and would be happy to work on the files, as I am a type designer myself. So, in case it is not intentional and Duo should, in fact, be meant to be truly duospace, please let me know! I love the modified Plex and am modifying Duo for my own uses already anyway as a truly duospace font. I'm happy to share them if needed. Cheers!

Licence Files are for IBM Plex

In the licence.md the headline is IBM Plex. I think this is another font? Isn‘t it? Is this intent?

GitHub Repo Website URL Not Linking

I noticed that the website URL for this repo (the optional URL that can be entered near the top of the repo's page) isn't resolving to an actual link. I think it's just because the first h in the url is capitalized (see screenshot).

Changing the URL from Https://ia.net to https://ia.net should fix the issue.

iA Writer duospace fails Firefox font sanitizer

Note: I found a solution to this issue, but I'm adding an issue (and closing it immediately) just so it shows up in Google for anyone else facing the same problem.

When you do the following:

1. Navigate to https://github.com/iaolo/iA-Fonts/tree/master/iA%20Writer%20Duospace in a web browser
2. Download the font files by right-clicking and using Save As
3. Try to load those files via CSS

In firefox the fonts then are rejected by the font sanitizer.

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The solution to this problem:

1. Download the entire repository as a zip (or clone locally)
2. Grab the files from your local copy
3. Add them using CSS

This resolves the issue.

Cheers to anyone who stumbles onto this via google!

Could you give a comparison between Duo and Duospace?

Hi. Loving the font, using Mono in my npp, VSCode and VS setup.
I got curious as there are other 'versions' other than Mono, and so I read the blogpost on Duospace and an article on Mono, Duo and Quattro
As I finished reading both posts, it seemed to me that there are no differences in files "Duospace" and "Duo". Is there any difference I missed? If so, could you point them out please?
Thank you.

Numero symbol (№) is unnecessarily narrow in Duo and Quattro

The numero symbol № is a standard monospace character in all of the iA fonts, leading it to be (given the constraints) unavoidably squished. However, if more space is allowed for it in the Duo and Quattro fonts (similar to how the @ is handled currently), its proportions would look more natural.

Missing Greek Glyphs

The following Greek characters seem to be have missing glyphs:

Duo S

Ώ (capital accented omega)

Duospace

Δ (capital delta)
Ώ (capital accented omega)

Quatro S

Ώ (capital accented omega)

Any plans to make a Medium weight?

Are there any plans to make a Medium weight of these fonts? I find the Regular version too light and the Bold too bold (ha!). Wondering if it has come up before to generate a medium version?

Thanks!

Am not able to install the fonts in OSX High Sierra

Looks like it complaints that serious damage will happen to the computer if I install them and when I tried to override it nothing happened. I also tried copying the fonts to the Fonts OSX directory directly and also double clicking them - Fonts Book does not recognise them at all. I wonder if there is a fix for this or if there is anyone else with the same problem.

doesn't seem to work right on Microsoft Word on Windows

I downloaded and installed the regular (not bold or italic) font and installed it in Windows 10. Then I pulled in some text to check out the font. It comes out monospaced. See attached screen shot.

German ß looks kind of odd.

Hey,

compared to the other letters in iA the german ß looks a bit awkward/angular/disharmoniously.
Duospace
Monospace

Is this desired or unintentionally?

Submit a font cask to Homebrew

To facilitate updates as Duospace evolves along with the upstream IBM Plex font family, please consider submitting a font cask to the homebrew-fonts repository, which makes it easy to install fonts along with other utilities and applications via the Homebrew package manager and Homebrew-Cask.

For more information, see the corresponding issues and pull requests for IBM Plex:

• IBM/plex#70
• Homebrew/homebrew-cask-fonts#1365

font spacing, overlapping characters

In various situations, macOS seems to not know where letters end -- e.g. wrapping a paragraph within a window's edge, or as in the screen capture below, converting an url to an active link. It looks like the extra half spaces are being ignored.

Source files

Please post the source files and build process

Alternate glyph for lowercase l (U+006C)

I’d like to ask if there’s general interest in an alternate glyph for the lowercase l (U+006C) which is rounded at the bottom to distinguish it better from the figure 1 …

If there’s just the l in e.g. a short URL, some hash, or other thing you maybe have to type in manually from e.g. some piece of paper, then people tend to be unsure about if the l is an l or a 1 … would love to see this happening.

Cyrillic support is declared, but not really there

It’s declared in the font info:

But there’s no Cyrillic symbols in the repertoire

Though I can clearly see Cyrillic support in iA Writer app for macOS

Do you use another version of this font for the app?

OTF files

Would be nice to have Postscript fonts as well, that's what I usually use in my print documents.

Cyrillic support

Do you have any plans to add Cyrillic support once it will be added to Plex (IBM/plex#87)?

Em Dash

Why not make it as wide as the m?

If a similar difference could be found between the en dash and Hyphen, it would help make the differences in dashes more readily apparent with this type of spacing.

Some webfonts files were deleted

Hi there, seems like commit 55edf60 removed some font files in Webfonts. There are only italics left.

The letter æ

I really like the idea - and result - of duospace!

One thing I very quickly noticed though, was that the Danish (and Norwegian, etc) letter æ looks very crammed compared to all the other very well balanced letters.

Being a ligature of the letters a and e, æ is naturally a quite wide letter.

My suggestion is therefore, to give æ the same 1.5 width as m, M, w and W.

Thanks for the consideration!

Invitation for the new project (MioFonts) : Google Font Picker for Android

Invitaion for the new project

We are creating a new library for a select font like the https://fonts.google.com by filter name family and language. Instant preview returns the TYPEFACE and Font family.

Fork and Push → https://github.com/dsdgroup/miofonts

Guide to use Variable fonts

Hi :D Thanks a lot for the fonts. I've never feel more right about buying iA Writer after reading your a Chrismas Typographic blog post.

It seems that you guys have spent a lot of time to adjust the variable fonts so it looks best in several font sizes, right? I'm just wondering is it possible to share that?

It's because sometimes I'm on a Linux machine and I must use another editor (which is a lot worse than iA Writer) so I tried to replicate the experience as much as possible. I can get the variable quattro to work, but I don't know how should I set other values like line-height and weight and optical etc. based on the font size. Can you guys share that?

Thank you

Trispaced font?

What about special "trispaced font"? Narrow characters like dots atc. ( . , ' ; : " ) draw as narrowed 50 %?

Ы U+042B doesn’t interpolate properly in iA Writer Mono

The bar of Ы U+042B has a different point order in both masters.

Add please Cyrillic support!

iA Writer supports Cyrillic. Add please Cyrillic support!
Thank you!

Provide webfont version of variable fonts

I want to use iA Quattro in the browser and can't find a variable woff2 version of that font.

Obviously there are converters that help doing this, but I'm not sure what settings to use.

It would help to know, how the existing non-variable webfont differentiates from the static version.

Providing only a woff2 version of the font seems fine these days.

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Related but not same: #47

Create Github Releases

It would be useful if the font binaries (only) were available as a Github release. The entire repo is available as a zip file but this contains many files that are not needed to actually use the font.

Break webfont into smaller subsets

Hi,

love the font, but using the .woff2 for regular, bold and italic, is around 97kb.

Is there a chance to release the font in different latin sets, like IBM plex has?
Each of these are around 14-15kb for latin1

thanks

update readme, is also now bundled in Windows version of iA Writer