Istok Web

Designed by Andrey V. Panov

2 weights • Version 26 • On Google Fonts since 2011 • Popularity #365

Quick Summary

4

Styles · incl. italic

400-700

Weight Range

Static

Not variable

4

Languages / Subsets

Category
sans-serif
Best for
display
Descriptors
code
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
License
SIL Open Font License
Last updated
Sep 10, 2025

© 2008-2014, Andrey V. Panov , with Reserved Font Name Istok

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The quick brown fox

32px
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About Istok Web Fonts

Istok Web is an original typeface, in development since 2008. At first some basic letters were based on specially modified METAFONT sources from the CM Bright font family from the TeX community. (METAFONT is very flexible technology.) But in fact Istok fonts are now very far from this origin. Contours of the font are designed in the freely distributable font editor, FontForge.

Most glyphs are manually hinted with the aim to be rendered on LCD displays. I used xgridfit as a tool for programming truetype instructions. Less frequently utilized symbols have automatic instructions produced by FontForge autohinting, until manual hinting can be done. Manual and automatic instructions are intended to look homogeneous.

The original sources and truetype fonts are available at code.google.com/p/istok and this 'Web' version has modified vertical metrics.

Updated: June 2014 to version 1.0.2g

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