- Heading
- Mona Sans
- Body text
- PT Serif Caption
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: business-like
- The body font is made for reading
Mona Sans
Size72px
Letter spacing0px
Line height1
About the font
Mona Sans is a free font by github, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 380 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 53% of the em and the capital height is 73%.
Mona Sans is a sans-serif font with support for the Latin script. It contains 797 glyphs across 16 styles, with weights from 200 to 900. According to its source notes, it was designed together with Degarism. It is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
github
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Latin
Glyphs
797
Character and uses
- Mood
- business-like
- technical
- Design
- grotesque
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Mona Sans has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 380 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
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- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Low German
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Luba-Lulua
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Rundi
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Norwegian
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Efik
- Sango
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
- Chadian Arabic
- Slovenian
- Scots
- North Ndebele
- Acoli
- Kongo
- Bini
- Makonde
- Gheg Albanian
- Sena
- Norwegian Nynorsk
…and 274 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 — Not included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Not included
- Indian Rupee — Included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Not 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
- 568
- x-height
- 53% of the em
- Capital height
- 73% of the em
- Version
- 2.027
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Kerning
kern - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic sets (10)
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
- github.com/github/mona-sans
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Mona Sans font free to use?
Yes. Mona Sans is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Mona Sans support Cyrillic?
No, Mona Sans supports Latin script only.
How many languages does Mona Sans support?
Mona Sans covers 380 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.
How do I install Mona Sans?
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 Mona Sans?
Mona Sans was created by github.
What is Mona Sans good for?
Judging by its design, Mona Sans suits: interfaces, headings, magazines and editorial, body text.
Pairs well with Mona Sans
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- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: business-like
- The body font is made for reading
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