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Fonts similar to Rec Mono

The fonts most like Rec Mono are Mononoki (73 out of 100), Maple Mono (67) and Annotation Mono (67), then 97 more free fonts, compared letter by letter. Measured, the twelve closest have x-heights of 48–56% of the em (Rec Mono’s is 54%) and lowercase letters 50–63% of the em wide (60%), and six of them are monospaced fonts too. Where they differ, most have a shorter x-height (seven of twelve).

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  1. 73match · #1

    Mononoki

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    x-height 9% shorter · 6% narrower

    Differs most from Rec Mono in b, q, and d

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  2. 67match · #2

    Maple Mono

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    x-height 4% taller

    Differs most from Rec Mono in U, P, and a

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  3. 67match · #3

    Annotation Mono

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    12% lighter · x-height 5% shorter · 4% wider

    Differs most from Rec Mono in U, p, and T

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  4. 59match · #4

    LXGW WenKai Mono TC

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    17% narrower · x-height 10% shorter · 13% lighter

    Differs most from Rec Mono in 9, G, and g

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  5. 58match · #5

    Comic Mono

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    20% heavier · 9% narrower · x-height 6% shorter

    Differs most from Rec Mono in J, U, and R

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  6. 54match · #6

    Artifika

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    more stroke contrast · x-height 5% shorter · 9% heavier

    Differs most from Rec Mono in U, q, and W

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  7. 50match · #7

    Arima

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    more stroke contrast · 15% narrower · x-height 3% shorter

    Differs most from Rec Mono in G, W, and j

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  8. 47match · #8

    Caesium

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    Nearly identical proportions

    Differs most from Rec Mono in U, V, and Y

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  9. 46match · #9

    Kosugi Maru

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    17% narrower · more stroke contrast

    Differs most from Rec Mono in U, I, and P

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  10. 45match · #10

    Salsa

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    42% heavier · 15% narrower · more stroke contrast

    Differs most from Rec Mono in a, 5, and T

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  11. 45match · #11

    Sono

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    x-height 10% shorter · more stroke contrast · 11% lighter

    Differs most from Rec Mono in U, d, and P

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  12. 45match · #12

    Monaspace Radon

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    3% wider

    Differs most from Rec Mono in a, p, and J

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The 100 fonts like Rec Mono, measured

Rec Mono is wider than most fonts like it: 70 of the 100 are narrower and 12 wider. What they keep most is Rec Mono’s weight on the page: 28 are within 6% of it, Mononoki the closest of them. 24 are monospaced fonts like Rec Mono, and 29 display faces, 27 sans serifs, 16 handwriting faces and 4 serifs come close too, Artifika the closest of them. They part from Rec Mono most often in U (46 of the 100), G (12) and 5 (12).

Questions about fonts like Rec Mono

What is the closest font to Rec Mono?

Mononoki, at 73 out of 100 in our letter-by-letter match: next to Rec Mono, it is 6% narrower, with an x-height 9% shorter. After it come Maple Mono (67) and Annotation Mono (67).

Is there a free alternative to Rec Mono?

Rec Mono is free itself, under the SIL Open Font License. For another font with its feel, every font on this page is free too, and Mononoki, Maple Mono and Annotation Mono come closest. To change fonts without moving your lines much, Maple Mono sets running text to the same width, with an x-height 3.9% taller.