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Agave was an attempt at making a small, monospaced, outline font that would be
geometrically regular and simple. The endeavor was motivated by a deep adoration
of old-school console bitmap fonts, of Consolas, of Pragmata Pro, as well as a
novice's curiosity for typographical design.
When it came to establishing a "simple" design scheme, the natural inclination
was to separate the glyph design concerns into that of "frame" and "trait". By
frame, we refer to the naive geometric extent of a glyph and its parts. And by
trait, we mean, for example, the "way" in which a stroke curves, or the
relationship between one part of a glyph and another.
Adhering to personal tastes, bone-deep laziness, and the quirky spirit of old
computer terminal fonts, the delineations of frame and trait amounted to two
mathematical patterns: the power of two and the golden ratio.
WWW: https://b.agaric.net/page/agave
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