Zen
Zen, Zen Mono & Zen Pixel
Zen is the Hanzo typeface. Sans is a geometric sans-serif in the Swiss line — one variable file across weight 100–900, drawn for headlines, wordmarks and text alike. Mono is its fixed-width companion, cut for code editors, terminals and diagrams. Pixel is a display family of five cuts — Square, Grid, Circle, Triangle, Line — one alphabet drawn five ways.
Installing
Fonts to install on a machine are in fonts/: otf/ and ttf/ for the
static cuts, variable/ for the one-file version of each family, webfonts/ for
.woff2. make build regenerates all of it from sources/.
For a web or app surface, take the package instead — it carries the faces, the stylesheet and the presets:
pnpm add @hanzo/font
import '@hanzo/font/css' // the faces
import '@hanzo/font/presets.css' // the presets
Then name the role rather than the face: var(--font-sans), var(--font-mono).
Full instructions are in the package README, and
font.hanzo.ai is the live specimen.
Building
CI builds the fonts on every push — look under Actions for the latest. To build on your own machine:
make buildproduces the font files.make testruns Fontspector's quality checks.make proofwrites HTML proofs.
crates/zen is the type tooling behind the presets — it reads outlines, measures
optical white between pairs, and fits one setting to a target shape. It compiles to
a native binary and to wasm from the same source, which is what lets the specimen
page run the fitter live.
License
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1, in
LICENSE.txt, which ships beside the binaries. The license is also
available with a FAQ at https://scripts.sil.org/OFL
Repository layout
Structured as Unified Font Repository v0.3, adjusted for the Google Fonts build workflow.