- Heading
- Cascadia Mono
- Body text
- Pliant
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: calm, technical
Cascadia Mono
Size72px
Letter spacing0px
Line height1
About the font
Cascadia Mono is a free font by Aaron Bell, Mohamad Dakak, Viktoriya Grabowska, Liron Lavi Turkenich, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 641 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 52% of the em and the capital height is 69%.
Cascadia Mono is a free monospace font released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. It supports Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic scripts, and includes the extra Cyrillic letters needed for Kazakh. The font has 10 styles with weights from 200 to 700 and is distributed as a variable font. It contains 4319 glyphs.
Author
Aaron Bell, Mohamad Dakak, Viktoriya Grabowska, Liron Lavi Turkenich
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
4319
Character and uses
- Mood
- technical
- calm
- Design
- monoline
- Good for
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Cascadia Mono has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 641 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Arabic
- Urdu
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Punjabi
- Javanese
- Vietnamese
- Persian
- Italian
- Filipino
- Pashto
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
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- Sindhi
- Ukrainian
- Uzbek(Latin)
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Somali(Arabic)
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Somali(Latin)
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Shona
- Low German
- Akan
- Quechua
- Central Kurdish
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Baluchi
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Dari
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Bambara
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Catalan
- Hebrew
- Mossi
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Uyghur
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Dyula
- Southern Sotho
- Krio
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Guarani
- Finnish
- Kashmiri
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Ewe
- Mandingo
- Uzbek(Cyrillic)
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Mazanderani
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Zarma
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Fon
- Waray
…and 526 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Included
- Russian Ruble — Included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Included
- Indian Rupee — Included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Included
- Numero sign — Included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 2426
- x-height
- 52% of the em
- Capital height
- 69% of the em
- Monospaced
- Yes
- Version
- 2407.024
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Contextual alternates
calt - Fractions
frac - Slashed zero
zero - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic sets (3)
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Cascadia+Mono
- Designer’s page
- sajatypeworks.com
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Cascadia Mono font free to use?
Yes. Cascadia Mono is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Cascadia Mono support Cyrillic?
Yes, Cascadia Mono includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Cascadia Mono support?
Cascadia Mono covers 641 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
Is Cascadia Mono a variable font?
Yes. Cascadia Mono is a variable font: weight and other properties change smoothly inside one file instead of needing a separate file for each style.
How do I install Cascadia Mono?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created Cascadia Mono?
Cascadia Mono was created by Aaron Bell, Mohamad Dakak, Viktoriya Grabowska, Liron Lavi Turkenich.
What is Cascadia Mono good for?
Judging by its design, Cascadia Mono suits: code, interfaces, body text.
Pairs well with Cascadia Mono
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