# Library The library has a page for each member, comparisons with other typefaces, guides and explainers. It also has a page for every script and every language on the map. ## Members - [Katagami Sans](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/katagami-sans): Katagami Sans is the core member of the family. It is a sans serif for interfaces and display with squared bowls, level cuts and square punctuation. - [Katagami Round](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/katagami-round): Katagami Round squares its bowls less than Katagami Sans and rounds every sharp vertex. It is for interfaces and text that should look softer. - [Katagami Text](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/katagami-text): Katagami Text is the member for reading. It has a lower x-height, is set smaller and tighter, and has wider round letters and capitals. - [Katagami Serif](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/katagami-serif): Katagami Serif is Katagami Text with rectangular serifs. Each serif ends square and meets the stroke in a short bracket. - [Katagami Mono](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/katagami-mono): Katagami Mono is Katagami Sans fitted to a monospace cell. It is for code, terminals and tables. ## Comparisons - [Katagami vs Inter](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/compare/katagami-vs-inter): Katagami starts from Inter's open-source outlines, and both families are free under the SIL Open Font License. Katagami squares the curves and cuts terminals level. It adds a rounded member, a reading member, a serif and a mono, and it merges 19 more scripts. - [Katagami vs Geist](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/compare/katagami-vs-geist): Geist and Katagami are both free families with a sans and a mono under the SIL Open Font License. Katagami adds a rounded sans, a reading face and a serif, and sets 22 scripts plus Chinese, Japanese and Korean. - [Katagami Mono vs Geist Mono](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/compare/katagami-mono-vs-geist-mono): Katagami Mono and Geist Mono are free monospace fonts under the SIL Open Font License. Each one has a sans in the same family to pair with. - [Katagami Mono vs JetBrains Mono](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/compare/katagami-mono-vs-jetbrains-mono): Both are free monospace fonts for code under the SIL Open Font License. JetBrains Mono turns its code ligatures on by default. Katagami Mono keeps them off until you turn on dlig. - [Katagami Mono vs Fira Code](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/compare/katagami-mono-vs-fira-code): Fira Code is a monospace font built around programming ligatures. Katagami Mono has a small set of code ligatures that stay off by default. - [Katagami vs IBM Plex](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/compare/katagami-vs-ibm-plex): IBM Plex and Katagami are both free families with a sans, a serif and a mono under the SIL Open Font License. - [Katagami Mono vs IBM Plex Mono](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/compare/katagami-mono-vs-ibm-plex-mono): Both are free monospace fonts under the SIL Open Font License, and each is part of a larger family. - [Katagami Serif vs IBM Plex Serif](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/compare/katagami-serif-vs-ibm-plex-serif): Both are free serifs under the SIL Open Font License that pair with a sans and a mono from the same family. - [Katagami vs Roboto](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/compare/katagami-vs-roboto): Roboto is Google's interface typeface. Katagami Sans is a squared sans with four sibling members, and it is free under the SIL Open Font License. - [Katagami vs SF Pro](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/compare/katagami-vs-sf-pro): SF Pro is Apple's system typeface, and its license covers designing interfaces for Apple platforms. Katagami is free to use and ship in any product under the SIL Open Font License. - [Katagami vs Helvetica](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/compare/katagami-vs-helvetica): Helvetica is a commercial typeface licensed from Monotype. Katagami Sans is free under the SIL Open Font License. - [Katagami Mono vs Berkeley Mono](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/compare/katagami-mono-vs-berkeley-mono): Berkeley Mono is a commercial monospace font. Katagami Mono was measured against it for its cell and arms, contains none of its outlines, and is free under the SIL Open Font License. - [Katagami Sans vs Camber](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/compare/katagami-sans-vs-camber): Camber is a commercial sans with squared curves. Katagami Sans was measured against it for proportion and curve shape, contains none of its outlines, and is free under the SIL Open Font License. - [Katagami Text vs PP Mori](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/compare/katagami-text-vs-pp-mori): PP Mori is a commercial sans. Katagami Text was measured against its proportions, contains none of its outlines, and is free under the SIL Open Font License. - [Katagami Serif vs NewsSerif](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/compare/katagami-serif-vs-newsserif): NewsSerif is a commercial serif family by Character Type. It was measured as a reference for the first Katagami Serif. Katagami Serif contains none of its outlines and is free under the SIL Open Font License. - [Katagami Serif vs Signifier](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/compare/katagami-serif-vs-signifier): Signifier is a commercial serif by Kris Sowersby at Klim Type Foundry. Katagami Serif follows Signifier's published design notes for rectangular baseline serifs, triangular head serifs and chopped terminals. Katagami Serif contains none of its outlines and is free under the SIL Open Font License. - [Katagami Serif vs Source Serif 4](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/compare/katagami-serif-vs-source-serif): Source Serif 4 and Katagami Serif are both free serifs under the SIL Open Font License. - [Katagami vs Noto Sans](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/compare/katagami-vs-noto-sans): The Noto project covers the scripts of Unicode across many fonts, and Noto Sans is its font for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Katagami draws its own Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. It merges 19 scripts from the Noto Sans fonts and scales them to Katagami's x-height. ## Guides - [Monospace fonts for code](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/fonts-for/coding): A monospace font for code needs one width for every character, distinct look-alike characters and ligatures you can turn off. Katagami Mono, JetBrains Mono, Fira Code, IBM Plex Mono, Geist Mono and Berkeley Mono are compared on license, weights, axes and features. - [Fonts for interfaces](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/fonts-for/interfaces): An interface font needs tabular figures, distinct look-alike characters, enough weights, coverage for your languages and a license for embedding. Katagami Sans and Round are compared with Inter, Geist, Roboto, SF Pro and IBM Plex Sans. - [Fonts for long reading](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/fonts-for/reading): Long text needs a moderate x-height, spacing set for body sizes and bold weights that stay open. Katagami Text and Katagami Serif are free typefaces for articles, documentation and books. - [Fonts for many languages](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/fonts-for/many-languages): Katagami sets the main language of places where 99.9 percent of people live. It draws Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, merges 19 more scripts and sets Chinese, Japanese and Korean with companion fonts. - [Commercial use](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/free-for-commercial-use): Katagami is free for commercial use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The license allows use in apps, websites and print, and it asks you to keep the license with the files and to rename changed versions. ## Explainers - [Variable fonts](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/learn/variable-fonts): A variable font holds a whole range of a design in one file. Katagami's weight axis runs from 100 to 900, its files name their styles, and CSS can set any weight in between. - [OpenType features](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/learn/opentype-features): OpenType features are substitutions that a font carries and a browser applies on request. CSS turns them on with font-variant and font-feature-settings, and Katagami Sans has 41 features you can switch. - [Squared curves](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/learn/squared-curves): How far a curve's handles reach toward its corner decides how square a bowl looks. A table gives the handle fraction f for a circle and for Katagami Text, Round and Sans. - [Katagami stencils](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/learn/katagami-stencils): Katagami are Japanese paper stencils for dyeing cloth, and the word 型紙 means pattern paper. They are cut by hand in Suzuka with four cutting methods. - [Fonts in coding agents](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/learn/fonts-in-coding-agents): Coding agents print their interface as text in a terminal grid. The font has to draw their box-drawing, block, Braille and status characters at one cell width, and each terminal has its own setting for Katagami Mono. - [Agent-native fonts](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/learn/agent-native-fonts): An agent needs readable text, an index, a license it can act on, stable addresses and facts as data before it can use a font. Katagami publishes each of these and offers a prompt for a coding agent. ## Scripts The [scripts page](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/scripts) lists every script in Katagami and whether it is drawn, merged or set by a companion font. ## Languages The [languages page](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/languages) lists every language on the map, and each of the 234 languages has its own page. ## Machine-readable text Every page has a Markdown twin at the same address with `.md`. The file [llms.txt](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/llms.txt) lists every page, and [llms-full.txt](https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/llms-full.txt) holds every page except the language pages in one file. --- Source: https://katagami.kevinliu.studio/library