Fragment Mono

Try Fragment Mono

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Fragment Mono Regular Italic

About Fragment Mono

Fragment Mono is a monospaced typeface for programming in the neo-grotesque manner: strokes are even, terminals are cut horizontally, and curves are tight and closed. Wei Huang built it by adapting Nimbus Sans, a sans serif by URW Design Studio, to a fixed character width and extending its character set. The changes that code requires are visible in the specimen: the zero carries a slash, the lowercase l has a curved foot, i and j have horizontal bars, and r stands on a base stroke so that narrow letters fill their cell. Punctuation and brackets are large. The family consists of Regular 400 and its italic, two styles, with no bold, and it is not a variable font. The 707 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended. Fragment Mono is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, and the copyright notice names The Fragment-Mono Project Authors.

Where Fragment Mono works

Code editors

A slashed zero and a footed l separate the characters that are easily confused in source code.

Comments in italic

The family includes a real italic, so themes that set comments or keywords in italics do not rely on a slanted regular.

Code blocks in documentation

Its plain grotesque shapes sit quietly next to a sans serif text face in technical articles.

Labels in technical layouts

Fixed-width letters align coordinates, version numbers and captions in diagrams and specification sheets.

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

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

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

Things to know

No bold

Fragment Mono has Regular and Italic only. Syntax themes that call for bold get a synthesised one or none.

Two static files

Regular and Italic are separate fonts; there is no variable version.

Latin scripts only

Latin and Latin Extended are covered. Cyrillic is not present in the fonts.

FAQs

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