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Build your own font

With Iosevka customized build

💡 About

Build a custom Iosevka font is easier than i thought.

This tutorial shows you how to build a custom Iosevka font with three lines of command, this is also how i made Bmono.

🧾 Dependencies

• docker to handling the build environment

⚙️ Configuration

You can use the Customizer to create the build plan, and/or manulally edit them, following this instructions.

Then write it into a file name private-build-plans.toml

🔨 Build

1. Make sure docker daemon is running in the background:

sudo dockerd

Wait until this messages show up:

API listen on /var/run/docker.sock

Press Ctrl + z (this will send the ^z input) then run bg command to run it in the background, or just open a new terminal.

2. Launch the docker command from the directory where your private-build-plans.toml is placed:

sudo docker run -it -v path/to/font:/build avivace/iosevka-build

Your built font files will be available in the dist/

3. Finally update the owner of the directory:

sudo chown -R $USER path/to/font/dist

💌 Credits

Special thanks to:

• Iosevka by Belleve
• Iosevka docker by Antonio Vivace

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