Monospace · Owen Earl

Drafting Mono

Q: Is Drafting Mono free for commercial use?

Yes. Drafting Mono is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included.

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Size72 px

Weight400 Regular

Letter spacing0 em

Line height1.10

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CSSfont-family: 'Drafting Mono', monospace; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;

Drafting Mono is a free monospace font by Owen Earl, from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Among the 99 monospaced fonts on FontKind, Drafting Mono has an x-height shorter than 84%, is of average width and, at its regular weight, is darker than 64%. Its thickest strokes are 1.3 times its thinnest: nearly even strokes.

Compare with Courier Prime →Compare with another font

01 / Light table

Laid on top of Courier Prime

Drafting Mono on one light table with its two closest fonts, Courier Prime (67 out of 100) and Iosevka Etoile (65). Courier Prime has less stroke contrast; Iosevka Etoile has an x-height 13% taller.

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Ink shared with Drafting MonoCourier Prime…

Most different letters first; the figure is the share of ink the fonts have in common. Where the fonts agree the letters cancel to black: every white sliver is a real difference.

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02 / Letters

The Drafting Mono alphabet

Capitals, lowercase, figures and signs · weight 400

Tap the letters you like, here and in other fonts, to find the fonts whose letters look most like them.

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03 / Weights

Drafting Mono in 7 weights

7 weights, 100–700, with italics

100 Thin, with its italic
200 Extra light, with its italic
300 Light, with its italic
400 Regular, with its italic
500 Medium, with its italic
600 Semibold, with its italic
700 Bold, with its italic

04 / Facts

Who made Drafting Mono, and can you use it?

Designer: Owen Earl
Kind: Monospace
Styles: 7 weights, 100–700, with italics
From: GitHub
Character sets: latin, latin-ext
Licence: SIL Open Font License 1.1

Can I use it?

Commercial use: Yes.
Logos: Yes.
Websites and apps: Yes. Self-hosted.
PDFs and documents: Yes.
Changes: Yes.
Sharing the files: Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.

Drafting Mono is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the licence itself decides.

What each licence allows →

Read the licence

Its licence file, in its repository

Already in your apps?

Google Docs: Not verified. Docs adds Google Fonts, and Drafting Mono comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Google’s guide
Word, PowerPoint: Not verified. Install it from its maker’s repository on GitHub first. Microsoft’s list
Figma: Not verified. Search its font menu, or install it. Figma’s help
Canva: Not verified. Search its font menu for Drafting Mono, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
Cricut: Once installed. Design Space lists Drafting Mono under System. Fonts for Cricut →

From each app’s own font list or help pages.

How each app gets its fonts →

Get Drafting Mono on GitHub

05 / Measurements

Drafting Mono, measured

Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style

Hxgp in Drafting Mono. Lines at the measured heights, as a share of the em · The parts of a letter, named

x-height: 46.0% of the emlowercase x
Cap height: 65.0% of the emcapitals
x / cap: 0.71lowercase against capitals
Width: 60.0% of the emaverage lowercase
Ink: 39%letter box filled
Contrast: 1.25 : 1nearly even strokes

How we measure →

Where it stands among monospaced fonts

Ranked against all 99 monospaced fonts on FontKind

x-heightSmaller than 84% of monospaced fonts
WidthNear the middle of monospaced fonts
InkDarker than 64% of monospaced fonts
ContrastMore contrast than 82% of monospaced fonts

06 / Similar fonts

Fonts similar to Drafting Mono

Matched letter by letter · its own family apart

All 100 fonts similar to Drafting Mono →Compare side by side →Get Drafting Mono on GitHub

07 / Swap

Swap Drafting Mono without a jump

Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%

Fallback while it loads

Until Drafting Mono loads, this sets Courier New in its place at 100% of its size, so running text keeps Drafting Mono’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Drafting Mono Fallback';
  src: local('Courier New');
  size-adjust: 99.98%;
  ascent-override: 91.77%;
  descent-override: 31.26%;
  line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}

font-family: 'Drafting Mono', 'Drafting Mono Fallback', monospace;

08 / Questions

Questions about Drafting Mono

Answered from its licence, GitHub and each app’s own font list

Is Drafting Mono free for commercial use?

Yes. Drafting Mono is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 , which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included.

How do I download and install Drafting Mono?

Drafting Mono comes free from its maker’s repository on GitHub . On its repository there, choose Code, then Download ZIP, and unzip the file: the fonts are in its fonts/ttf folder. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each TTF or OTF file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open. The web fonts this page uses load from its repository, through jsDelivr, as does its licence file .

Is Drafting Mono in Google Docs?

Probably not: the More fonts list in Docs draws on Google Fonts, and Drafting Mono comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Docs can’t add a font of your own, so set it in an app on your computer, such as Word, instead.

How many weights does Drafting Mono have?

Drafting Mono comes in seven weights, from Thin (100) to Bold (700), each with an italic.

Who designed Drafting Mono?

Drafting Mono was designed by Owen Earl. Owen Earl also made Bodoni Moda, Jost, Besley and two more on FontKind.

What fonts are similar to Drafting Mono?

The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Courier Prime (67), Iosevka Etoile (65) and Erica Type (63), out of 100. Next to Drafting Mono, Courier Prime has less stroke contrast. See all 100 fonts like Drafting Mono.