Anonymous Pro

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Anonymous Pro Regular Italic
• Bold 700Anonymous Pro Bold Bold Italic

About Anonymous Pro

Anonymous Pro is a fixed-width typeface family in which every character occupies the same horizontal space. Mark Simonson designed it for programming: the zero in the specimen carries a slash, and I, l and 1 each have their own serifs and feet, so the characters most often confused in source code look different. According to the official description, the family was inspired by Anonymous 9, a freeware bitmap font for the Macintosh that Susan Lesch and David Lamkins developed in the mid-1990s. There are four static styles, Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic, and the Regular and Bold files contain embedded bitmaps for the smallest sizes, 10 to 13 pixels per em. The 624 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Greek character sets. Anonymous Pro is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Anonymous Pro works

Code editors and terminals

Distinct shapes for 0 and O and for 1, l and I reduce misreadings in identifiers, hashes and file paths.

Code samples in documentation and slides

Bold and italic styles mark keywords and comments while every character stays on the same fixed grid.

Small sizes on low-resolution screens

Embedded bitmaps in Regular and Bold take over between 10 and 13 pixels per em, where outlines render least clearly.

Plain-text tables and logs

Equal character widths keep columns aligned in configuration files, logs and ASCII tables.

Comments and strings in Cyrillic or Greek

Both scripts are in the character set, so non-Latin text inside code keeps the same width.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian
• Greek

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic, Greek. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, greek, latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Anonymous Pro

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Anonymous Pro on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Anonymous Pro";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AnonymousPro-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Anonymous Pro";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AnonymousPro-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Anonymous Pro";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AnonymousPro-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Anonymous Pro";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AnonymousPro-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Anonymous Pro", monospace;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Anonymous Pro with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Anonymous+Pro:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Four static files

Anonymous Pro is not a variable font. Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic are separate TTF files.

Bitmaps for 10 to 13 ppem

The official description states that the Regular and Bold styles include embedded bitmaps for the smallest sizes. Whether they are used depends on the rendering system.

Slashed zero by default

The specimen shows the zero with a diagonal slash; no setting is needed to turn it on.

FAQs

Collections with Anonymous Pro

• Monospace fonts for coding

  Fixed-width open-license families for editors and terminals, with clear zeros, several weights and, in most cases, italics.

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