# Cascadia Code font

> A monospaced family from Microsoft with six weights, italics and Arabic, Hebrew, Cyrillic and Greek alongside Latin.

Cascadia Code is a monospaced typeface family from Microsoft, credited to Aaron Bell, Mohamad Dakak, Viktoriya Grabowska and Liron Lavi Turkenich. Cascadia Code is a variable font with a weight axis from 200 to 700, six weights with italics and 4,287 glyphs. Cascadia Code is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 for code editors and terminals.

## Facts

- Classification: [Monospace](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/monospace)
- Designed by: Aaron Bell, Mohamad Dakak, Viktoriya Grabowska, Liron Lavi Turkenich
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 12 (ExtraLight 200, Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600, Bold 700; with italics)
- Variable font: Yes (wght 200–700)
- Glyphs: 4287
- Character sets: arabic, braille, cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, hebrew, latin, latin-ext, symbols2, vietnamese
- Last updated: 2025-09-16
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cascadia+Code
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/cascadia-code
- Tagged for: Interfaces, Code, Tech

## About Cascadia Code

Cascadia Code is a monospaced family in which every character occupies the same width, as the evenly spaced alphabet in the specimen shows. Letters that are narrow in other fonts are widened to fill the cell: i, j and l carry long foot and head strokes, and r has a flat base serif. The zero is marked inside to separate it from the capital O. The family is a variable font with a weight axis from 200 to 700 and six named weights, ExtraLight to Bold, each with an italic, for 12 styles in two variable files. With 4,287 glyphs it reaches well past Latin: Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew and Arabic are present, along with Vietnamese, braille patterns and a symbols subset. Microsoft Corporation holds the copyright, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright (c) 2019 - Present, Microsoft Corporation, with Reserved Font Name Cascadia Code.

Allowed:
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions:
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it works

- **Code editors**: Equal character widths keep indentation and aligned operators in columns, and the marked zero is not mistaken for O.
- **Terminal emulators**: Braille patterns and a symbols subset are in the font, which text-mode programs draw on for charts and indicators.
- **Code samples in documentation**: Six weights with italics allow bold keywords and italic comments without leaving the family.
- **Right-to-left strings in source files**: Hebrew and Arabic letters come from the same font as the Latin code around them.
- **Logs and tabular output**: Fixed widths line up timestamps, levels and values row after row.

## Things to know

- **Weight range 200 to 700**: The axis ends at Bold 700; there is no ExtraBold or Black, and nothing lighter than ExtraLight 200.
- **Two variable files**: Upright and italic are separate variable fonts, each with the full weight axis.
- **A large file**: The 4,287 glyphs across several scripts make the files bigger than a Latin-only monospaced font; subset them for web use.
- **Credits**: The catalogue lists four designers. The font's name table gives Aaron Bell as designer and Saja Typeworks as manufacturer.

## FAQs

### Is Cascadia Code free for commercial use?

Yes. Cascadia Code is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license and may not use the reserved name Cascadia Code without permission.

### Who designed Cascadia Code?

Cascadia Code is credited to Aaron Bell, Mohamad Dakak, Viktoriya Grabowska and Liron Lavi Turkenich. The name table lists Aaron Bell as designer, and Microsoft Corporation holds the copyright.

### Is Cascadia Code monospaced?

Yes. Every character in Cascadia Code has the same advance width, which is why it is used for code and terminal text.

### How many weights does Cascadia Code have?

Cascadia Code has six weights, from ExtraLight 200 to Bold 700, each with an italic, which makes 12 styles.

### Is Cascadia Code a variable font?

Yes. Cascadia Code is a variable font with a weight axis from 200 to 700, supplied as one upright and one italic file.

### Which scripts does Cascadia Code cover?

Cascadia Code covers Latin and Latin Extended, Vietnamese, Cyrillic (including Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian), Greek, Hebrew and Arabic character sets, plus braille patterns.

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