Chivo Mono

Try Chivo Mono

Weights and styles

• Thin 100Chivo Mono Thin Thin Italic
• ExtraLight 200Chivo Mono ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Chivo Mono Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Chivo Mono Regular Italic
• Medium 500Chivo Mono Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Chivo Mono SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Chivo Mono Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Chivo Mono ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Chivo Mono Black Black Italic

Chivo 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 Chivo Mono

Chivo Mono is a monospaced typeface in which every character occupies the same width. It was drawn as the fixed-width companion to Chivo, which the official notes describe as a neo-grotesque with solid, balanced strokes. To fill the common cell, narrow letters gain horizontal strokes: i, j and l stand on wide feet and r carries a base serif, while m and w are compressed. The family is a variable font with one axis, weight, from 100 to 900, and nine named weights from Thin to Black. Uprights and italics are separate variable files, 18 styles altogether. The fonts hold 825 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Omnibus-Type published the family, Héctor Gatti developed it, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Chivo Mono works

Code editors and terminals

Equal character widths keep indentation and columns aligned, and nine weights let the text colour be tuned to the screen.

Syntax highlighting with weight and italic

Matching italics and a full weight range mark comments, keywords and strings without relying on colour alone.

Tables and data listings

Every figure has the same width, so numbers line up in columns.

Technical labels beside Chivo

As the sibling of Chivo, it sets code samples and reference numbers next to Chivo text in the same style.

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
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 Chivo 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 Chivo 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: "Chivo Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ChivoMono-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Chivo Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ChivoMono-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Chivo 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=Chivo+Mono:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Two variable files

The download holds one variable file for the uprights and one for the italics, each spanning weights 100 to 900.

Default weight is 500

The variable files open at 500, Medium, when no weight is specified, not at Regular 400.

Latin scripts only

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

FAQs

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