Cousine

Try Cousine

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Cousine Regular Italic
• Bold 700Cousine Bold Bold Italic

About Cousine

Cousine is a monospaced typeface in which every character occupies the same width. Steve Matteson designed it as a sans serif whose metrics are compatible with a common fixed-width system font, so a file written with that font can be opened with Cousine without lines or pages reflowing; the official notes describe this as an answer to document portability between platforms, together with better on-screen reading. In the specimen the strokes are even and unadorned, only narrow letters such as i, j, l and r take slab-like feet and arms to fill their cells, and the zero carries an inner mark that separates it from the capital O. There are four static styles: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. Each holds 2,339 glyphs across Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew and Vietnamese sets. The name table lists Monotype Imaging as manufacturer.

Where Cousine works

Code editors and terminals

Equal character widths keep indentation and columns aligned, and the marked zero is hard to mistake for a capital O.

Documents that must not reflow

Because the widths match a common fixed-width system font, scripts, forms and plain-text reports keep their line breaks when Cousine is substituted.

Code samples in documentation

Regular, Bold and their italics let comments, keywords and emphasis be told apart inside a listing.

Plain-text tables and logs

Fixed widths line up figures in columns without table markup.

Technical text in several scripts

Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew characters share the same cell width as the Latin, so mixed strings still align.

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
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian
• Greek

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, hebrew, 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 Cousine

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

body {
  font-family: "Cousine", monospace;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Cousine 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=Cousine:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Four static files

Cousine is not a variable font. It ships as Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic, with no light or medium weight.

Width is fixed by design

All characters share one advance width, which serves alignment and gives running prose looser, more even spacing than a proportional face.

Hebrew is included

Besides Latin, Cyrillic and Greek, the fonts contain a Hebrew subset.

FAQs

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