Istok is a new sans serif typeface. At present it has the four fonts with support for Latin and Cyrillic. The font includes oldstyle figure variants and small capitals (Regular only). Most glyphs are manually instructed using xgridfit, but other ones are autoinstructed in fontforge. Truetype instructions are specifically intended for rendering on LCD displays.

The Russian word исток [istók] means source.

The fonts are distributed under the terms of either GNU General Public License Version 3 with the font exception or Open Font License. The font sources have only GNU General Public License Version 3.

You need fontforge, TTX/FontTools, xgridfit and font-helpers in order to build truetype fonts from the sources.

Archives in Downloads section could be unpacked using xz or 7-zip version later than 9.04.