- Heading
- Monaspace
- Body text
- IBM Plex Sans Thai
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: serious, technical
Monaspace
Size72px
Letter spacing0px
Line height1
About the font
Monaspace is a free font by githubnext, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 436 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 51% of the em and the capital height is 73%.
Monaspace is a monospace font from GitHub Next and is one of five metrics-compatible typefaces in a superfamily. The static version includes 14 styles with weights from 200 to 800 and 3570 glyphs in total. It supports Latin and Cyrillic scripts as well as Kazakh, since it contains all the extra Cyrillic letters that language needs. The font is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
githubnext
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
3570
Character and uses
- Mood
- technical
- serious
- Design
- monoline
- Good for
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Monaspace has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 436 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
Show 87 more
- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Shona
- Low German
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Guarani
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Uzbek
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Zarma
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Efik
- Mongolian
- Sango
- Kyrgyz
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
…and 325 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
- 2460
- x-height
- 51% of the em
- Capital height
- 73% of the em
- Monospaced
- Yes
- Version
- 1.400 (Monaspace Argon Frozen)
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed, documents stay editable
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Discretionary ligatures
dlig - Contextual alternates
calt - Fractions
frac - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Ordinals
ordn
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.
How 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/githubnext/monaspace
- Designer’s page
- lettermatic.com
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Monaspace font free to use?
Yes. Monaspace is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Monaspace support Cyrillic?
Yes, Monaspace includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Monaspace support?
Monaspace covers 436 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 Monaspace?
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 Monaspace?
Monaspace was created by githubnext.
What is Monaspace good for?
Judging by its design, Monaspace suits: code, interfaces, body text.
Pairs well with Monaspace
More pairs and your own textSimilar fonts
More typefaces you might like
Monospace
Monospace
Monospace
MonospaceVariable
Monospace
Monospace
Monospace
MonospaceVariable