googlefonts/googlesans-code

Google Sans Code

In Memory of Chris Simpkins

Dedicated to the memory of Chris Simpkins, whose enthusiasm and efforts were foundational to this project.

About

Google Sans Code is a fixed-width font family, designed to bring clarity, readability, and a bit of Google's distinctive brand character to code. Stemming from Google's brand type design aesthetic and developed for products like Gemini and Android Studio, it ensures each character remains distinct, even at small sizes. Moreover, it's finely tuned for the unique typographic demands of programming language syntax.

Explore the features, learn where to download the fonts, or dive into the build instructions to compile them yourself below.

Features

• Enhanced Legibility: Designed for optimal readability in code editors and terminals.
• Supported Scripts: Extended Latin, with support for multiple languages.
• Variable Font: Offers a wide weight axis range from 300 to 800.
• OpenType Features: Stylistic sets, localized forms
• Variable Font Axes:
  • wght: weight, range 300 - 800; default=400

Installation

To install Google Sans Code, download the latest variable font release files and install the fonts on your operating system. The download zip archive includes separate Roman and Italic variable fonts.

Build Instructions

Install Dependencies

This project is compiled from glyphspackage format source files to TTF format variable font binaries using the fontc font compiler. The fontc compiler project is in active development and we recommend that you use the same release version of the fontc compiler that we are using to compile our repository releases.

You may identify the version of the fontc compiler version that we use at any commit in this repository by reviewing the requirements.txt, and locating the line beginning with "fontc" definition that includes the fontc executable version number after ==.

You can either:

• Download the appropriate fontc compiler release for your platform/architecture, install it on your system, and use the build instructions below. This is a pure Rust approach.
• Use the Makefile, which uses Python's pip to manage & install build dependencies

Build

Clone the repository to your local machine:

git clone https://github.com/googlefonts/googlesans-code.git

and then navigate to the root of the repository directory.

Compile the Roman variable font:

fontc sources/GoogleSansCode.glyphspackage --flatten-components --decompose-transformed-components --output-file fonts/variable/GoogleSansCode[MONO,wght].ttf

Compile the Italic variable font:

fontc sources/GoogleSansCode-Italic.glyphspackage --flatten-components --decompose-transformed-components --output-file fonts/variable/GoogleSansCode-Italic[MONO,wght].ttf

The compiled fonts are available in the sub-directory: fonts/variable.

Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD)

On each push to the main branch, and on all Pull Request branch commit pushes, the fonts are compiled and tested with our quality assurance test suite. The compiled TTFs and QA testing reports can be downloaded from the Actions tab, in the Summary page of the latest run.

When a git tagged version release is created on GitHub, release fonts are uploaded to the respective release.

Contributing

Please open new issue reports on our repository issue tracker.

See the CONTRIBUTING.md file for additional contributing instructions.

Changes

See the CHANGELOG.md for details on recent changes.

License

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at https://openfontlicense.org

See AUTHORS.txt for a list of copyright authors, including organizations like Google LLC. See CONTRIBUTORS.txt for a list of individual people who have contributed.

Also see TRADEMARKS.md regarding naming issues.