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Platinum Fonts
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Pixel fonts for interfaces and terminals, drawn on a 12-pixel grid. They set Latin text alongside Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and stay sharp at 12 pixels and its multiples.
Families
- Platinum Sans: a proportional sans for interface text.
- Platinum Sans Small: a smaller sans for dense layouts, such as toolbars and status bars.
- Platinum Mono: a monospaced font for terminals and code. Chinese, Japanese and Korean take two cells, aligned with the Latin. Programming ligatures and the icons of Nerd Fonts are built in.
Each family comes in Regular and Bold, and in four regional versions: SC (Simplified Chinese), TC (Traditional Chinese), JP (Japanese) and KR (Korean). They share their Latin glyphs; the version decides the regional forms of the Han characters. Pick the one for the language you read most.
Install
Download a zip from Releases. Each format comes in its own zip:
| Format | For |
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otf |
macOS, Windows and most applications |
ttf |
Applications that do not take OTF |
woff2 |
Web pages |
otb |
Linux desktops (GTK, Pango) |
bdf, pcf |
X11 applications |
- macOS: open the font files and click Install Font.
- Windows: select the font files, right-click, and choose Install.
- Linux: copy the font files to
~/.local/share/fontsand runfc-cache -f.
Use them at 12 pixels
Each glyph is drawn pixel by pixel on a 12-pixel grid, so the fonts are sharp only at 12 pixels or a multiple of it (24, 36…). At other sizes they blur.
| Where | Size |
|---|---|
| macOS (Retina or not) | 12 or 24 |
| Windows at 100% or 200% scaling | 9 pt or 18 pt |
| Web pages | font-size: 12px or 24px |
On Windows at other scalings, such as 125% or 150%, no point size lands on whole pixels.
Platinum Mono in a terminal
Set the font family to Platinum Mono SC (or TC, JP, KR) and the size to
12.
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Line height is built in, so leave your terminal's line height at its default. A cell is 7 pixels wide and 14 tall.
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Icons draw two cells wide but advance one, as in the Nerd Font fonts (not Nerd Font Mono). Leave a space after each; tools such as eza and Starship already do.
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Ligatures join
=>!=<=->:://and others, 31 in all. They are on by default, through the OpenType featurecalt; BDF and PCF have none. To turn them off:Application Setting Ghostty font-feature = -caltZed "buffer_font_features": { "calt": false }VS Code "editor.fontLigatures": falseKitty disable_ligatures alwaysWezTerm harfbuzz_features = { "calt=0" } -
Ambiguous-width characters, such as
○★and Greek and Cyrillic letters, take one cell. Keep your terminal's ambiguous width set to narrow, the usual default.
For developers
The fonts are also Go packages that draw text into images; see Development. How each family is made, with its metrics and sources, is described in Design.
License
The fonts are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Platinum Mono also contains ligatures under the MIT License and icons under the licenses of their icon sets; NOTICE.md lists every source and its license. The code is under the MIT License.
Directories
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Package bitmap holds a bitmap face: one bit per pixel, a glyph for each of its characters, packed in a compact form that Encode writes and Decode reads.
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Package bitmap holds a bitmap face: one bit per pixel, a glyph for each of its characters, packed in a compact form that Encode writes and Decode reads. |
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Package cjk12 contains 12px bitmap faces for East Asian scripts, one package per set of regional forms: zhhans (Simplified Chinese), zhhant (Traditional Chinese), ja (Japanese) and ko (Korean).
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Package cjk12 contains 12px bitmap faces for East Asian scripts, one package per set of regional forms: zhhans (Simplified Chinese), zhhant (Traditional Chinese), ja (Japanese) and ko (Korean). |
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ja
Package ja contains 12px bitmap faces for East Asian scripts, Japanese forms, from Fusion Pixel Font 2026.09.25 (proportional).
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Package ja contains 12px bitmap faces for East Asian scripts, Japanese forms, from Fusion Pixel Font 2026.09.25 (proportional). |
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ko
Package ko contains 12px bitmap faces for East Asian scripts, Korean forms, from Fusion Pixel Font 2026.09.25 (proportional).
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Package ko contains 12px bitmap faces for East Asian scripts, Korean forms, from Fusion Pixel Font 2026.09.25 (proportional). |
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zhhans
Package zhhans contains 12px bitmap faces for East Asian scripts, Simplified Chinese forms, from Fusion Pixel Font 2026.09.25 (proportional).
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Package zhhans contains 12px bitmap faces for East Asian scripts, Simplified Chinese forms, from Fusion Pixel Font 2026.09.25 (proportional). |
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zhhant
Package zhhant contains 12px bitmap faces for East Asian scripts, Traditional Chinese forms, from Fusion Pixel Font 2026.09.25 (proportional).
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Package zhhant contains 12px bitmap faces for East Asian scripts, Traditional Chinese forms, from Fusion Pixel Font 2026.09.25 (proportional). |
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cmd
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build
command
Command build makes the faces of this repository from the glyphs drawn in glyphs/ and the sources pinned in sources.toml, and writes them with their coverage report, specimens and notices.
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Command build makes the faces of this repository from the glyphs drawn in glyphs/ and the sources pinned in sources.toml, and writes them with their coverage report, specimens and notices. |
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export
command
Command export writes the installable fonts of this repository as BDF: each family, with the East Asian glyphs of each region, in each style.
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Command export writes the installable fonts of this repository as BDF: each family, with the East Asian glyphs of each region, in each style. |
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internal
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bdf
Package bdf reads and writes fonts in the Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) 2.1.
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Package bdf reads and writes fonts in the Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) 2.1. |
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cells
Package cells tells how many cells of a terminal's grid a character takes, as wcwidth computes it: two for East Asian Wide and Fullwidth characters, none for marks, format characters, controls and the medial vowels and final consonants of Hangul, and one for every other, East Asian Ambiguous among them.
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Package cells tells how many cells of a terminal's grid a character takes, as wcwidth computes it: two for East Asian Wide and Fullwidth characters, none for marks, format characters, controls and the medial vowels and final consonants of Hangul, and one for every other, East Asian Ambiguous among them. |
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coverage
Package coverage counts the characters of the national character sets that a face draws.
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Package coverage counts the characters of the national character sets that a face draws. |
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drawn
Package drawn reads faces drawn in text: each glyph's rows under a line naming its character, '#' ink and any other character paper.
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Package drawn reads faces drawn in text: each glyph's rows under a line naming its character, '#' ink and any other character paper. |
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grid
Package grid draws the characters that fill a cell of Platinum Mono and join the cells around them: box drawing, block elements, braille patterns and Powerline's separators.
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Package grid draws the characters that fill a cell of Platinum Mono and join the cells around them: box drawing, block elements, braille patterns and Powerline's separators. |
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ligature
Package ligature reads ligatures drawn in text, and finds where they are drawn: by Starts in Go, and by the OpenType feature Feature writes, which agree.
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Package ligature reads ligatures drawn in text, and finds where they are drawn: by Starts in Go, and by the OpenType feature Feature writes, which agree. |
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source
Package source fetches the fonts sources.toml pins: it downloads each once into a cache, checks its SHA-256, and reads the files of an archive.
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Package source fetches the fonts sources.toml pins: it downloads each once into a cache, checks its SHA-256, and reads the files of an archive. |
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Package mono contains Platinum Mono, a face for terminals and code on a grid of cells 7px wide and 14px tall: ascent 11, cap height 8, x-height 6.
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Package mono contains Platinum Mono, a face for terminals and code on a grid of cells 7px wide and 14px tall: ascent 11, cap height 8, x-height 6. |
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Package sans contains Platinum Sans, a proportional Latin face: cell 12px, ascent 9, cap height 9, x-height 6.
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Package sans contains Platinum Sans, a proportional Latin face: cell 12px, ascent 9, cap height 9, x-height 6. |
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Package sanssmall contains Platinum Sans Small, a proportional Latin face: cell 11px, ascent 8, cap height 8, x-height 5.
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Package sanssmall contains Platinum Sans Small, a proportional Latin face: cell 11px, ascent 8, cap height 8, x-height 5. |