Source Code Pro

Source Code Pro is a set of OpenType fonts that have been designed to work well in user interface (UI) environments.

Getting involved

Open an issue or send a suggestion to Source Code's designer Paul D. Hunt, for consideration.

Releases

• Latest release
• All releases

Building the fonts from source

Requirements

To build the binary font files from source, you need Python 3 along with the Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO) and FontTools packages, which you can install with

pip3 install afdko

Building one font

The key to building the OTF fonts is makeotf, which is part of the AFDKO toolset. Information and usage instructions can be found by executing makeotf -h. The TTFs are generated with the otf2ttf and ttfcomponentizer tools.

Commands to build the Regular style OTF font:

cd Roman/Instances/Regular/
makeotf -r -gs -omitMacNames

Commands to generate the Regular style TTF font:

otf2ttf SourceCodePro-Regular.otf
ttfcomponentizer SourceCodePro-Regular.ttf

Building all non-variable fonts

For convenience, a shell script named build.sh is provided in the root directory. It builds all OTFs and TTFs into a directory called target/. It can be executed by typing:

./build.sh

or this on Windows:

build.cmd

Building the variable fonts

To build the variable TTFs you must install fontmake using this command:

pip3 install fontmake

A shell script named buildVFs.sh is provided in the root directory. It generates four variable fonts (two CFF2-OTFs and two TTFs), and can be executed by typing:

./buildVFs.sh