Font Collection: 10 Free Excellent Monospaced Fonts
Monospaced fonts, which are fonts whose characters have equal horizontal widths, are suitable for programming because they make source code easier to read. However, they’re not a designer’s go-to when picking out typefaces for designs because they’re created with functionality, rather than aesthetic appeal, as a priority. Although, some monospaced fonts do look great, and I hope in this collection you’ll find some that you can use in design projects.
1. Audimat Mono
This stylish monospaced font comes from SMeltery, a French font foundry by Jack Usine. Audimat Mono comes in 9 variations (Audimat Mono Light is shown below).
2. Lekton
Designed in the ISIA, (Institute for Industrial Arts in Italy), Lekton was inspired by typefaces used on Olivetti typewriters, a company known for its focus on design.
3. Liberation Mono
Released by Red Hat, a major Linux distribution vendor, this monospaced font is part of the Liberation font family (that also includes Libration Sans and Libration Serif).
4. CP Mono
Inspired by typefaces used in British license plates, CP Mono is evenly spaced horizontally and vertically (resulting in shorter ascenders and decenders).
5. Cousine
Designed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation, Cousine is a monospaced font specifically created with on-screen readability in mind.
6. DejaVu Mono
Part of the DejaVu font family (a group of fonts released into the public domain), DejaVu Mono is great for on-screen readability.
7. Droid Sans Mono
Droid Sans Mono, developed for the Android platform, is a monospaced variation of Droid Sans. The font is suitable in tabular settings.
8. Telegrama
Telegrama is a monospaced font with futuristic aesthetics. The font was designed by Japanese designer Yamoaka Yasuhiro.
9. Inconsolata
This font by Raph Levien can work very well in designs, but it is most known for, and highly regarded, as a beautiful and readable "programmer’s font".
10. Luxi Mono
This functional monospaced font made by Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow is part of the Luxi font family (which also includes Luxi Sans and Luxi Serif).
Author: Jacob Gube
10 Comments (Add yours)
Steve Pye
Jan 17 2011
ummm… Cousine and Liberation Mono are exactly the same? Installed both, alternated back and forth between the fonts in FontBook on OS X, and they are exactly the same font.
bobby d
Aug 19 2012
FontSquirrel shows Cousine as having a dotted zero, but other than that it’s just a newer version of the same design with a different license. Liberation is GPL (free), Cousine is SIL (free but in a different way). The Wikipedia article for “Liberation fonts” has details.
Bertram Simon
Jan 18 2011
Btw, an excellent coding font is Dina:
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Jibz/Dina/
Simona
Jan 18 2011
Contributor
My fav is Inconsolata :)
Jacob Gube
Jan 18 2011
Editorial Team
Same! I use it in text editors and in Evernote.
Ramesh
Jan 25 2011
I am not able to see any images from this website plz fix it asap :@ ..
Fredrik
Jan 28 2011
Audimat Mono i have to say its the best one really like it!
Joz!
Feb 01 2011
AGAIN!
gutted….wanted to learn this technique….:(
no images :( :( :(
bobby d
Aug 19 2012
Another great monospaced font is Damien Guard’s Envy Code R. Set it to 12.5 points like he recommends. It looks great even without anti-aliasing, for those of us who love that retro dotted-letter vibe.
Raghu R
Sep 27 2015
I love Everson Mono, by Evertype. It’s VERY readable , even at 4px, and Looks too perfect to be real.