Monaco font
Monaco is a monospaced sans serif by Susan Kare, first issued by Apple in 1984. It comes with macOS and isn’t sold on its own. FontKind hasn’t measured it, so the free fonts below stand beside it by their own description and by class, not by measurement.
No picture of Monaco here: only your own copy, if you have it
01 / Free fonts with a similar description or class
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Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Roboto Mono02by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like IBM Plex Mono03by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like JetBrains Mono04by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Inconsolata05by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Geist Mono06by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Source Code Pro
Not measured against Monaco: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Monaco or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Monaco
- Designed by
- Susan KareSource: Wikipedia: Monaco (typeface)
- First issued
- Apple, 1984Source: Wikipedia: Monaco (typeface)
- Class
- Monospaced sans serifSource: Wikipedia: Monaco (typeface)
- Comes with
- macOS Tahoe: MonacoSource: Apple: fonts included with macOS Tahoe
Read by hand on 1 October 2026 from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), Microsoft’s and Apple’s lists of their fonts, Monotype’s list of its trademarks and the foundries’ and shops’ own pages. The references are linked beside each fact; a page that sells or hands out the font is not, so a fact read only there shows no link.
Typeface names may be trademarks of their owners. FontKind is not affiliated with Apple, and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Monaco
Is Monaco free?
Monaco comes with macOS and isn’t sold on its own: use it on a Mac, and a free font anywhere else. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Monaco?
Monaco was designed by Susan Kare, and first issued by Apple in 1984.
Can I use Monaco in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word on a Mac, yes, as macOS comes with Monaco; on Windows, only after you install a licensed copy. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Monaco isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Roboto Mono, IBM Plex Mono and JetBrains Mono are there, under More fonts. Canva publishes no list of its fonts: search its font menu, or, with Canva Pro, upload a font whose licence allows it.
What is the closest free alternative to Monaco?
FontKind hasn’t measured Monaco: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Roboto Mono, IBM Plex Mono and JetBrains Mono are monospaced fonts in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Monaco.