Google Sans Code

Try Google Sans Code

Weights and styles

• Light 300Google Sans Code Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Google Sans Code Regular Italic
• Medium 500Google Sans Code Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Google Sans Code SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Google Sans Code Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Google Sans Code ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic

Google Sans Code 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 Google Sans Code

Google Sans Code is a monospaced typeface credited to Google and Universal Thirst. In the specimen every character sits on the same width; the zero is slashed, the lowercase l ends in a curved tail, the i and j carry a serif at the top, and the curly braces are drawn with pronounced curls. The family is distributed as two variable fonts, roman and italic. Each has a weight axis from 300 to 800 and a second axis named Monospace, which runs from 0 to 1 and defaults to 1, the fixed-width setting shown in the specimen. Six named weights from Light to ExtraBold, each with an italic, make 12 styles. The 693 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Google Sans Code is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Google Sans Code works

Code editors

The slashed zero and the tailed l keep 0, O, l and 1 distinct, and equal character widths keep indentation aligned.

Terminal windows

Light 300 to ExtraBold 800 give enough range to mark prompts or errors by weight.

Technical documentation

Italics exist for every weight, so comments and placeholders in a code sample can be set apart.

Comments and strings in several languages

Latin Extended and Vietnamese letters are in the files, so comments and string literals in Polish, Turkish or Vietnamese stay in the same monospaced face.

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 Google Sans Code

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 Google Sans Code 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: "Google Sans Code";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/GoogleSansCode-Italic-VariableFont_MONO%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 800;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Google Sans Code";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/GoogleSansCode-VariableFont_MONO%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Google Sans Code", monospace;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Google Sans Code 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=Google+Sans+Code:ital,wght@0,300..800;1,300..800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Two variable files

One file holds the roman, the other the italic. Both carry the weight axis (300 to 800) and the Monospace axis (0 to 1).

Monospace axis defaults to 1

The font data gives the axis range and default but no description of the intermediate setting; the specimen shows the default.

No Cyrillic or Greek

Among the major alphabets, only Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese are complete.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All monospace fonts