- Heading
- Iosevka Charon
- Body text
- IBM Plex Sans Thai
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: serious, technical
Iosevka Charon
Size72px
Letter spacing0px
Line height1
About the font
Iosevka Charon is a free font by Juliette Pluto, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 975 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 52% of the em and the capital height is 74%.
Iosevka Charon is a monospace font with 8 styles covering weights from 300 to 700. It contains 11300 glyphs and supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh scripts, including the extra Cyrillic letters used in Kazakh. It is not a variable font. Iosevka Charon is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, and its author is Juliette Pluto.
Author
Juliette Pluto
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
11300
Character and uses
- Mood
- technical
- serious
- Design
- condensed
- monoline
- Good for
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Iosevka Charon has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 975 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Hakka Chinese
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Hausa
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Yoruba
- Igbo
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- Uzbek(Latin)
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Madurese
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Shona
- Low German
- Akan
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Tunisian Arabic
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Bambara
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Kanuri
- Catalan
- Mossi
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Fula
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Dyula
- Southern Sotho
- Krio
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Guarani
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Armenian
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Romany
- Sicilian
- Ewe
- Mandingo
- Uzbek(Cyrillic)
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Zarma
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Lingala
- Central Atlas Tamazight
- Tiv
…and 864 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Included
- Russian Ruble — Included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Included
- Indian Rupee — Included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Included
- Numero sign — Included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 7562
- x-height
- 52% of the em
- Capital height
- 74% of the em
- Version
- 34.100
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Old-style figures
onum - Lining figures
lnum - Fractions
frac - Slashed zero
zero
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Iosevka+Charon
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Iosevka Charon font free to use?
Yes. Iosevka Charon is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Iosevka Charon support Cyrillic?
Yes, Iosevka Charon includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Iosevka Charon support?
Iosevka Charon covers 975 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
How do I install Iosevka Charon?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created Iosevka Charon?
Iosevka Charon was created by Juliette Pluto.
What is Iosevka Charon good for?
Judging by its design, Iosevka Charon suits: code, interfaces, body text.
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