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Comment by HackerThemAll | Hacker News Reader

download the zip file from github and unpack it.

Clicking Sans-Serif, Code Editor, from the quick picker downloads PkgTTc-SGr-losevka-34.9.0.zip

That file contains 9 font variants ranging in size from 50 to 54 megabytes.

And you need to SUM them to get the actual disk consumption. Add every 54 MB or so to get 489 megabytes (466 MiB) in total.

  26.09.2026  11:44        55 325 476 SGr-Iosevka-Bold.ttc
  26.09.2026  11:44        55 529 052 SGr-Iosevka-ExtraBold.ttc
  26.09.2026  11:44        52 411 832 SGr-Iosevka-ExtraLight.ttc
  26.09.2026  11:44        55 813 148 SGr-Iosevka-Heavy.ttc
  26.09.2026  11:44        54 856 068 SGr-Iosevka-Light.ttc
  26.09.2026  11:44        53 842 504 SGr-Iosevka-Medium.ttc
  26.09.2026  11:44        54 954 816 SGr-Iosevka-Regular.ttc
  26.09.2026  11:44        55 088 816 SGr-Iosevka-SemiBold.ttc
  26.09.2026  11:44        51 327 812 SGr-Iosevka-Thin.ttc
               9 File(s)    489 149 524 bytes

In contrast - NotoSansMono-VariableFont_wdth,wght.ttf - 1.7MB, gives me all the variants Iosevka needs half a gig for.

Your original premise said it was half a gig for a single variant, not all of them, you're moving goalposts. Also never in my life have I installed a "SemiBold" variant or any of those other barely different ones. Just install regular/light/heavy/bold and get on with your life.

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