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+* agave
+
+*** about
+
+*agave* is a fixed-width outline typeface, designed by *type agaric*, that is primarily aimed at freetype/X environments.
+
+Free to use, peruse, and diffuse. Everything (font files, glyph designs, glyph databases, and documentation) is released under the [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agarick/agave/master/license.txt][MIT license]].
+
+*more about:* [[https://agaric.net/page/agave]]
+
+*** status (rev. 008)
+
+/Development of agave has halted, though small refinements and additions may occur in the future./
+
+- regular:
+  - *done:* ascii; latin ext; greek; cyrillic; ipa; arrows; box; *some others*
+  - *todo:* more glyphs here and there
+
+- bold:
+  - /yet to be designed/
+
+- italic:
+  - /yet to be designed/
+
+*** distribution
+
+=ttf= files are packaged in =dist/agave-<ver>.tar.gz=.
+
+Source templates, designs, and databases can be found in =src/=.
+
+*font files:*
+
+In each form of packaged distribution, the actual font files are named =agave-?.ttf=,  
+where =?= stands for =r=, =b=, =i=, or =z=, representing the =regular=, =bold=, =italic=, and =bold+italic= variants respectively.
+
+*** preview
+
+*xterm*, sampling =uname= and =lua=:
+
+[[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agarick/agave/master/sample/xterm.png]]
+
+*glyph distinction*, in ASCII:
+
+[[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agarick/agave/master/sample/ascii.png]]
+
+*geometric rationale*, sampling the Latin letter "b":
+
+[[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agarick/agave/master/sample/metric.png]]
+
+*literary text*, sampling ASCII, Greek, and Cyrillic:
+
+[[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agarick/agave/master/sample/text.png]]
+
+*** discussion
+
+Feedback, questions, suggestions, etc. are welcome and encouraged.
+
+Please contact *type agaric* via email at [email protected]=.
+
+*** thanks
+
+... foremost to the respective persons/teams behind FontForge and Inkscape, as I relied on the two programs to design, draw, and generate *agave*,
+
+to GitHub for hosting this repo, and to everyone who starred this project.