Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono

Try Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono

Weights and styles

• ExtraLight 200Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono Regular Italic
• Medium 500Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic

Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono

Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono is a monospaced family in which every character occupies the same width. The specimen shows how much the design works to separate similar characters: the zero carries a slash, the capital I has top and bottom bars, the lowercase l ends in a curved tail, and the lowercase q has a short spur at its foot, so strings such as O0, Il1 and qg are hard to confuse. Letterforms are otherwise plain, open sans serif shapes with large counters. The family is built as two variable fonts, upright and italic, each with a weight axis from 200 to 800. That yields seven named weights from ExtraLight to ExtraBold and 14 styles. Each font holds 380 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended. The credits list Braille Institute, Applied Design Works, Elliott Scott, Megan Eiswerth and Letters From Sweden.

Where Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono works

Code editors and terminals

Fixed-width letters align code in columns, and the slashed zero and tailed l separate characters that matter in identifiers.

Passwords, serial numbers and IDs

Distinct shapes for 0 and O and for 1, l and I reduce misreading when a code has to be copied by hand.

Tables and logs

Because all characters share one width, figures and timestamps line up without extra formatting.

Syntax themes with weight contrast

Seven weights from 200 to 800 plus italics let a theme mark keywords, comments and strings by weight and slant.

Technical documentation

Inline code and command examples stay distinct from the surrounding prose.

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

Character sets found in the files: 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 Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono

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 Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono 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: "Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AtkinsonHyperlegibleMono-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200 800;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AtkinsonHyperlegibleMono-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono", monospace;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono 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=Atkinson+Hyperlegible+Mono:ital,wght@0,200..800;1,200..800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Variable files only

The package holds two variable TTF files, upright and italic. The 14 static instances are not included here.

Weight range stops at 800

The axis runs from 200 to 800: there is no Thin 100 and no Black 900.

Latin only

Latin and Latin Extended are covered. Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese are not included.

FAQs

Collections with Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono

• Monospace fonts for coding

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

• Fonts designed for legibility and accessible reading

  Families whose makers set out to make letters easier to tell apart: for low vision, beginning and struggling readers, and safety-critical displays.

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