Monospace fonts
In a monospace font every character takes the same width, as on a typewriter, so text lines up in columns: the fonts of code, terminals and tables. Here are 99 free ones, from coding fonts to typewriter and pixel faces, with the best for small sizes and narrow panes.
01 / Styles
Three kinds of monospace
Coding fonts by our measures, typewriter and pixel faces by the look of their letters.
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Coding
Fonts for editors and terminals, with a bold for keywords and an italic for comments.
How we tell4 weights or more and an italic; not one of the typewriter or pixel faces below.
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Typewriter
The letters of the office typewriter, Courier’s family: slab serifs and strokes of one weight, as if typed on paper.
How we tellOur lab’s typewriter style, by the look of the letters: too few fonts yet for a page of its own.
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Pixel and terminal
Letters on the square grid of early screens and terminals, each in a cell of its own.
How we tellOur lab’s pixel style, by the look of the letters.
02 / Best for
The best monospace fonts
By use, picked by our measurements, most used first. The rule is under each job.
Small sizes and terminals
x-height of 53% of the em or more, with 3 weights or more: big lowercase letters for dense code at small sizes.
Narrow panes
55% of the em a character or less: more columns in a split editor or a terminal.
Logos
The fifth of monospaced fonts least like any other, with no family or copy of their own: their closest match here scores 76 of 100 or less. A technical wordmark set in one looks like no other.
03 / All fonts
All 99 monospace fonts
99 monospaced fonts on FontKind: filter them by name or by look, and pick their order.
99 of 99 fonts
- Roboto MonoMonospace7 weights
- IBM Plex MonoMonospace7 weights
- JetBrains MonoMonospace8 weights
- InconsolataMonospace8 weights
- Geist MonoMonospace9 weights
- Space MonoMonospace2 weights
- Source Code ProMonospace8 weights
- Martian MonoMonospace8 weights
- Google Sans CodeMonospace6 weights
- VT323Monospace1 weight
- Share Tech MonoMonospace1 weight
- MonofettMonospace1 weight
- DM MonoMonospace3 weights
- Cutive MonoMonospace1 weight
- Anonymous ProMonospace2 weights
- Azeret MonoMonospace9 weights
- Courier PrimeMonospace2 weights
- Fira CodeMonospace5 weights
- B612 MonoMonospace2 weights
- Fragment MonoMonospace1 weight
- Sometype MonoMonospace4 weights
- Nova MonoMonospace1 weight
- PT MonoMonospace1 weight
- Syne MonoMonospace1 weight
- Kode MonoMonospace4 weights
- Ubuntu MonoMonospace2 weights
- LXGW WenKai Mono TCMonospace3 weights
- Fira MonoMonospace3 weights
- Intel One MonoMonospace5 weights
- CousineMonospace2 weights
- Red Hat MonoMonospace5 weights
- Overpass MonoMonospace5 weights
- Iosevka Charon MonoMonospace4 weights
- Spline Sans MonoMonospace5 weights
- Sixtyfour ConvergenceMonospace1 weight
- Chivo MonoMonospace9 weights
- WorkbenchMonospace1 weight
- DatatypeMonospace9 weights
- LektonMonospace2 weights
- Oxygen MonoMonospace1 weight
- Major Mono DisplayMonospace1 weight
- Xanh MonoMonospace1 weight
- Victor MonoMonospace7 weights
- Reddit MonoMonospace8 weights
- Iosevka CharonMonospace4 weights
- SixtyfourMonospace1 weight
- Ubuntu Sans MonoMonospace4 weights
- LilexMonospace7 weights
- Libertinus MonoMonospace1 weight
- 0xProtoMonospace2 weights
- Accent MonoMonospace9 weights
- AgaveMonospace2 weights
- ANAKRONMonospace1 weight
- Annotation MonoMonospace10 weights
- Anomaly MonoMonospace1 weight
- Buena MonoMonospace8 weights
- CaesiumMonospace7 weights
- CMU Typewriter TextMonospace3 weights
- CodettaMonospace2 weights
- Comic MonoMonospace2 weights
- Commit MonoMonospace6 weights
- CompagnonMonospace3 weights
- DejaVu MonoMonospace2 weights
- Departure MonoMonospace1 weight
- Drafting MonoMonospace7 weights
- Erica TypeMonospace2 weights
- Fliege MonoMonospace9 weights
- Illinois MonoMonospace3 weights
- Iosevka AileMonospace9 weights
- Iosevka Curly SlabMonospace9 weights
- Iosevka EtoileMonospace9 weights
- JgsMonospace1 weight
- JuliaMetalMonospace1 weight
- JuliaMonoMonospace7 weights
- kirschMonospace1 weight
- Kreative SquareMonospace1 weight
- Lab MonoMonospace1 weight
- League MonoMonospace8 weights
- Maple MonoMonospace8 weights
- Monaspace ArgonMonospace7 weights
- Monaspace KryptonMonospace7 weights
- Monaspace NeonMonospace7 weights
- MonocraftMonospace5 weights
- MononokiMonospace2 weights
- Necto MonoMonospace1 weight
- New Heterodox MonoMonospace2 weights
- Noto MonoMonospace1 weight
- Opus OneMonospace2 weights
- Pixel CodeMonospace10 weights
- Rec MonoMonospace2 weights
- SergamonMonospace1 weight
- SligoilMonospace2 weights
- Snap-it MonoMonospace1 weight
- TDATextMonospace1 weight
- TeraFontMonospace1 weight
- TerminaliaMonospace3 weights
- Trmnl CubicMonospace4 weights
- Uncut Plan8Monospace1 weight
- Undefined MediumMonospace1 weight
04 / Questions
Monospace fonts, answered
- What is a monospace font?
- A font whose characters all take the same width, from a narrow i to a wide m, as on a typewriter, so text lines up in columns. Code editors and terminals use one; Courier New and Consolas, which come with Windows, are monospaced.
- What is the best font for coding?
- One with a bold for keywords and an italic for comments: by our measures, Roboto Mono, IBM Plex Mono, JetBrains Mono and Geist Mono have four weights or more and italics. Fira Code and JetBrains Mono also draw pairs such as => and != as single symbols: ligatures, which some programmers like and others switch off. Press Start 2P, Noto Sans Mono and Doto, filed under other kinds here, are monospaced too.
- What font looks like a typewriter?
- Our lab files Cutive Mono, Courier Prime, Xanh Mono and Libertinus Mono as typewriter faces, by the look of their letters. Special Elite, filed under display, looks typed with a worn ribbon. Courier New, which comes with Windows, has a free twin with its metrics: Cousine. The typewriter generator sets your own words in them.
- Are these monospace fonts free for commercial use?
- Yes, in editors, apps and products alike. All 99 monospaced fonts are free, under licences that allow commercial use: 96 under the SIL Open Font License, 2 under the Ubuntu Font Licence and 1 under the MIT License. Every one may ship inside the software you make, with its licence.
- What are the most popular monospace fonts?
- On Google Fonts, the most used monospaced families are Roboto Mono, IBM Plex Mono, JetBrains Mono, Inconsolata and Geist Mono, in that order: the list of all 99 on this page starts with them in its Most used order.
- Which monospace fonts work in Google Docs and Word?
- Google Docs adds Google Fonts families under More fonts in its font menu, so 48 of these 99 monospaced fonts are most likely there. Of these monospaced fonts, one is a colour font, which Google says Docs likely does not support yet. The 50 monospaced fonts from Fontsource and their makers’ own releases are not in Docs. None of these monospaced fonts is one of Microsoft 365’s cloud fonts: install one from its source to use it in Word. Windows 11 comes with Consolas, Courier New and Lucida Console, each linked to the free fonts most like it.
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