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Typeface projects on GitHub

Font families and typeface design projects.

As of , the most-starred Typeface projects on GitHub are maple-font (29.3K stars), LxgwWenKai (26.3K stars) and Iosevka (23.1K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 13 Typeface repositories with 187.5K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was maple-font, with +23 stars in a day.

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187.5KStars in total
+130Stars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+23

maple-font

subframe7536/maple-font · ★ 29.3K

Maple Mono is an open-source monospace font with round corners, smart ligatures, and built-in Nerd-Font icons, made to smooth your coding flow in IDEs and terminals.

+18

LxgwWenKai

lxgw/LxgwWenKai · ★ 26.3K

LXGW WenKai (霞鹜文楷) is an open-source Chinese font derived from Fontworks' Klee One, a Japanese textbook-style typeface, extended by a solo developer with simplified and traditional Chinese characters.

+18

Macintosh-Skeletal-Filled

npwitk/Macintosh-Skeletal-Filled · ★ 581

Macintosh Skeletal Filled recreates the handwritten script from Apple's macOS/iOS 'hello' setup screen as regular, typeable fonts, rebuilding the stroke-and-join rendering Apple's own renderer draws.

+14

libron

nicoverbruggen/libron · ★ 1.9K

Libron is a manually edited revision of the Readerly font, redrawn to have calmer, less distracting serifs and letterforms, specifically for comfortable reading on e-readers and screens.

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13 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · subframe7536/maple-font

    maple-font

    Maple Mono is an open-source monospace font with round corners, smart ligatures, and built-in Nerd-Font icons, made to smooth your coding flow in IDEs and terminals.

    29.3K
  2. #2 · lxgw/LxgwWenKai

    LxgwWenKai

    LXGW WenKai (霞鹜文楷) is an open-source Chinese font derived from Fontworks' Klee One, a Japanese textbook-style typeface, extended by a solo developer with simplified and traditional Chinese characters.

    26.3K
  3. #3 · be5invis/Iosevka

    Iosevka

    Iosevka is an open-source typeface family designed for writing code, using in terminals and preparing technical documents. It comes in sans-serif and slab-serif forms, both monospace and quasi-proportional.

    23.1K
  1. 4

    inter

    20Krsms/inter · Python

    Inter is a free and open source typeface carefully designed for computer screens, with a tall x-height that helps readability of mixed-case and lower-case text.

  2. 5

    Hack

    17.4Ksource-foundry/Hack · Shell

    Hack is a free, open source monospaced typeface built specifically for source code. It grows out of the Bitstream Vera and DejaVu projects and aims to be a workhorse font for programming.

  3. 6

    source-han-sans

    17.4Kadobe-fonts/source-han-sans · Python

    Source Han Sans is a set of open-source Pan-CJK OpenType fonts covering Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong), Japanese, and Korean, plus the full source files used to build them.

  4. 7

    smiley-sans

    14.9Katelier-anchor/smiley-sans · HTML

    Smiley Sans (得意黑) is a Chinese sans-serif typeface that balances a humanist look with geometric structure, featuring narrow, slightly slanted letterforms with details inspired by hand-painted lettering.

  5. 8

    Sarasa-Gothic

    12.9Kbe5invis/Sarasa-Gothic · JavaScript

    Sarasa Gothic is a CJK composite font that merges Inter (Latin/Greek/Cyrillic), Iosevka (for the Mono/Term/Fixed variants) and Source Han Sans (CJK glyphs) into a single unified gothic/sans-serif typeface covering Chinese, Japanese and Korean alongside Latin text.

  6. 9

    plex

    11.7KIBM/plex · CSS

    IBM Plex is IBM's corporate typeface family, released as an open-source project. It's a signature font family you can download and use under the Open Font License.

  7. 10

    Monocraft

    11.4KIdreesInc/Monocraft · Python

    A free monospaced programming font that recreates the Minecraft UI typeface, with 1500+ glyphs reworked for readability and spacing. It ships as an installable .ttc file.

  8. 11

    libron

    1.9Knicoverbruggen/libron · Python

    Libron is a manually edited revision of the Readerly font, redrawn to have calmer, less distracting serifs and letterforms, specifically for comfortable reading on e-readers and screens.

  9. 12

    c64-keyboard-font

    636szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font · Python

    C64 Keyboard is a font that recreates the printed letter and symbol legends from a real Commodore 64 keyboard, traced and cleaned up from photographs of the actual keycaps. It ships as desktop TTF/OTF files, a webfont, editable outlines, and a specimen for previewing the glyphs.

  10. 13

    Macintosh-Skeletal-Filled

    581npwitk/Macintosh-Skeletal-Filled

    Macintosh Skeletal Filled recreates the handwritten script from Apple's macOS/iOS 'hello' setup screen as regular, typeable fonts, rebuilding the stroke-and-join rendering Apple's own renderer draws.

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