Iosevka Charon
Iosevka Charon is a monospace font in 4 weights with italics. Its lowercase letters are 16% narrower than the typical monospace font. Last updated 11 March 2026.
Editing a PDF that uses Iosevka Charon
Most PDFs embed only the letters they already use. Type a new letter and many editors either refuse or swap in a different font. MythosPDF recognises Iosevka Charon from the widths stored in your PDF, loads the complete open font, and sets your new text in Iosevka Charon itself. The rest of the page is carried over untouched.
Measured metrics
| Average lowercase letter width | 503.2 units per 1000 em |
|---|---|
| Average capital letter width | 503.2 units per 1000 em |
| Word space | 292 units per 1000 em |
| Digits | tabular (every digit is 500 units wide, so columns of numbers line up) |
| Spacing | proportional |
| Width of i compared with m | 44% |
| Printable ASCII characters covered | 94 of 94 |
| Category | Monospace |
Weights and styles
Languages beyond basic Latin
Open fonts closest to Iosevka Charon
Measured on every printable character both fonts contain. A smaller difference means the same words take the same space, so lines break in the same places.
- Datatype Regularsimilar widths (29.9 units)
- Lekton Regularloosely similar widths (30.1 units)
- Iosevka Curly Regularloosely similar widths (31.6 units)
- M PLUS Code Latin Regularloosely similar widths (31.6 units)
- Inconsolata Regularloosely similar widths (31.6 units)
- M PLUS 1 Code Regularloosely similar widths (31.6 units)
- Unifont Regularloosely similar widths (31.6 units)
- UnifontEX Regularloosely similar widths (31.6 units)
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Questions people ask
+Can I edit a PDF that uses Iosevka Charon?
Yes. Drop the PDF into MythosPDF and click the text. New letters are set in Iosevka Charon itself, loaded from the open font, so the edit matches the rest of the page.
+Is Iosevka Charon free to use?
Iosevka Charon is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, an open licence that allows free use in documents, including commercial ones. Check the licence text for your exact use.
+Which font is closest to Iosevka Charon?
By measured letter widths, Datatype is the closest match among open fonts (a mean difference of 29.9 units per 1000 em). Text set in one takes almost the same space in the other.
+Which languages does Iosevka Charon support?
It includes these character sets: Armenian, Braille, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Latin, Central European, Math symbols, Symbols, More symbols, Vietnamese.
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