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TDAText
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CSSfont-family: 'TDAText', monospace; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;
TDAText is a free monospace font, from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Among the 99 monospaced fonts on FontKind, TDAText has an x-height shorter than 61%, is of average width and, at its regular weight, is darker than 89%. Its thickest strokes are 1.0 times its thinnest: nearly even strokes.
01 / Light table
Laid on top of Home Video
TDAText on one light table with its two closest fonts, Home Video (92 out of 100) and Departure Mono (84). Home Video is 9% lighter, with an x-height 40% taller; Departure Mono is 16% lighter and 6% wider, with an x-height 9% taller.
TDAText and Home Video laid on top of each other.
Ink shared with TDATextHome Video…
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.
02 / Letters
The TDAText 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.
- &
- ?
- !
- @
- %
- (
- )
03 / Sizes
TDAText at every size
1 weight (400) · six sizes, in your words
- 12 px
- 16 px
- 24 px
- 36 px
- 48 px
- 72 px
04 / Facts
Can you use TDAText?
- Designer
- Not listed
- Kind
- Monospace
- Styles
- 1 weight (400)
- From
- GitHub
- Character sets
- latin
- 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, under another name. Not as “TDAText”: the licence reserves the name.
- Sharing the files
- Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.
TDAText is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the licence itself decides.
Already in your apps?
- Google Docs
- Not verified. Docs adds Google Fonts, and TDAText 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 TDAText, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
- Cricut
- Once installed. Design Space lists TDAText under System. Fonts for Cricut →
From each app’s own font list or help pages.
05 / Measurements
TDAText, measured
Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style
- x-height
- 50.0% of the emlowercase x
- Cap height
- 70.0% of the emcapitals
- x / cap
- 0.71lowercase against capitals
- Width
- 60.0% of the emaverage lowercase
- Ink
- 43%letter box filled
- Contrast
- 1.00 : 1nearly even strokes
Where it stands among monospaced fonts
Ranked against all 99 monospaced fonts on FontKind
x-heightSmaller than 61% of monospaced fonts
WidthNear the middle of monospaced fonts
InkDarker than 89% of monospaced fonts
ContrastMore even than 87% of monospaced fonts
06 / Similar fonts
Fonts similar to TDAText
Matched letter by letter · its own family apart
- Home Video92x-height 40% taller · 9% lighter
- Departure Mono84x-height 9% taller · 16% lighter · 6% wider
- Undefined Medium80Nearly identical proportions
- Terminalia7817% narrower · x-height 13% shorter · 16% lighter
- Pixel Code77x-height 11% taller · 11% wider
- ANAKRON76more stroke contrast · x-height 17% shorter · 11% wider
All 100 fonts similar to TDAText →Compare side by side →Get TDAText on GitHub
07 / Swap
Swap TDAText without a jump
Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%
Fallback while it loads
Until TDAText loads, this sets Courier New in its place at 100% of its size, so running text keeps TDAText’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.
@font-face {
font-family: 'TDAText Fallback';
src: local('Courier New');
size-adjust: 99.98%;
ascent-override: 80.01%;
descent-override: 20.00%;
line-gap-override: 9.00%;
}
font-family: 'TDAText', 'TDAText Fallback', monospace;08 / Questions
Questions about TDAText
Answered from its licence, GitHub and each app’s own font list
Is TDAText free for commercial use?
Yes. TDAText is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 , which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included; a changed version may not be called “TDAText”.
How do I download and install TDAText?
TDAText 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 TDAText in Google Docs?
Probably not: the More fonts list in Docs draws on Google Fonts, and TDAText 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 TDAText have?
TDAText comes in one weight, Regular (400). Ask for bold and most apps thicken the letters themselves: a faux bold, not a drawn one.
What fonts are similar to TDAText?
The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Home Video (92), Departure Mono (84) and Undefined Medium (80), out of 100. Next to TDAText, Home Video is 9% lighter, with an x-height 40% taller. See all 100 fonts like TDAText.