Monospace Fonts

(Resources)

A while ago, while repurposing an old laptop into a distraction-free “typewriter” I researched fonts with a typewriter-like aesthetic. Here’s what I found:

Sun Gallant Demi, Solarize, Libertine/Libertinus Mono, Triplicate, Prestige Elite, CMU Typewriter, Latin Modern Mono, MingLiU, sony-misc, Verily Serif Mono, Century Schoolbook Mono BT, UM Typewriter, American Typewriter, Courier, Pitch, TiredOfCourier, Xanh Mono, DSE Typewriter, LTC Remington Typewriter, Bitstream Pica 10 Pitch, Italian Typewriter, Typist Slab, FF Elementa, EF Techno Script, Drafting* Mono, Bodoni Egyptian Mono.

Menlo

Menlo (typeface) - Wikipedia: "Menlo is a monospaced sans-serif typeface designed by Jim Lyles. The face first shipped with Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Menlo is based upon the Open Source font Bitstream Vera and the public domain font Deja Vu."

Cascadia Code ⭐️

Stylized, quite fun, but very heavy. No weights or italics. Ligatures.

From Microsoft.

Courier Prime

"Designed for screenplays"

Too wide and pretty generic.

Inconsolata

Small. Looks a bit off.

Andale Mono

Tons of letter spacing.

Cousine

Round and friendly. Feel more like a standard sans-serif. Probably better for Markdown than JS.

Proper 0 (with a dot), no ligatures.

Hebrew glyphs, for some reason.

Droid Sans Mono

Similar to Cousine. No italics, no ligatures.

Droid Sans Mono Font Free by Google Android . Font Squirrel

Oxygen Mono ⭐

Narrow and tall, somewhat reminds me of JetBrains Mono but much more natural and rounded.

No italic, no weights, no ligatures.

Quite readable.

Designed for KDE.

vernnobile/oxygenFont Oxygen Mono - Google Fonts

Office Code Pro

Generally too wide and rounded.

Comes in two different versions, with 0 either crossed or dotted.

Italics and several weights. No ligatures.

nathco/Office-Code-Pro: Customized version of Source Code Pro

Liberation Mono

Nice, narrow.

Liberation fonts - Wikipedia

Input

Highly customizable, including line height. No ligatures.

Highly boxy and square, even more than JetBrains Mono.

Input: Fonts for Code

Hack

Very nice. No ligatures.

source-foundry/Hack: A typeface designed for source code

PT Mono

Type-writer style, kind of like Courier. Not a favorite.

I have a bold version of it but not sure where from.

PT Fonts - Wikipedia PT Mono Font Free by Paratype - Font Squirrel

Lekton

Very thin, not really usable.

Lekton Font Free by Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino - Font Squirrel

Cutive

Too light, too much height contrast, not usable.

vernnobile/CutiveFont: repo for the Cutive font family

IBM Plex Mono ⭐️

Very beautiful. No ligatures.