DM Mono

Try DM Mono

Weights and styles

• Light 300DM Mono Light Light Italic
• Regular 400DM Mono Regular Italic
• Medium 500DM Mono Medium Medium Italic

About DM Mono

DM Mono is a monospaced typeface in which every character occupies the same width. It was commissioned by DeepMind from Colophon Foundry and, according to the official notes, loosely follows DM Sans with less stroke contrast and less geometric proportions. The specimen shows a slashed zero, an i and j with slab-like feet and heads, and an l that ends in a curved tail, details that keep similar characters apart. The family has three weights, Light 300, Regular 400 and Medium 500, each with an italic, for six styles supplied as separate static files. There is no bold. Each font holds 411 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended. The files are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, and DM Mono was added to Google Fonts in 2020.

Where DM Mono works

Code blocks in documentation

Fixed character widths keep indentation aligned, and the slashed zero cannot be mistaken for a capital O.

Terminal and editor text

Light, Regular and Medium give a choice of stroke thickness for dark or light colour schemes.

Comments and emphasis in code

Each of the three weights has its own italic, so comments or keywords can be set apart without changing width.

Tables of figures

Every digit takes the same width, which lines numbers up in columns without extra settings.

Labels beside DM Sans

DM Mono was drawn from DM Sans, so data labels and captions in the mono sit comfortably next to interface text in the sans.

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 DM 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 DM 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: "DM Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/DMMono-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "DM Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/DMMono-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "DM Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/DMMono-LightItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "DM Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/DMMono-Medium.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 2 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves DM 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=DM+Mono:ital,wght@0,300;0,400;0,500;1,300;1,400;1,500&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Medium is the heaviest cut

The range stops at Medium 500. A request for bold will be synthesised by the browser or application.

Six static files

The package holds six separate TTF files rather than a variable font.

Latin only

Subsets are Latin and Latin Extended; Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

FAQs

Collections with DM Mono

• Monospace fonts for coding

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

Similar fonts

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