Kode Mono

Try Kode Mono

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Kode Mono Regular
• Medium 500Kode Mono Medium
• SemiBold 600Kode Mono SemiBold
• Bold 700Kode Mono Bold

Kode Mono is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Kode Mono

Kode Mono is a monospaced family in which every character occupies the same width and almost every curve is replaced by straight segments joined at chamfered corners. In the specimen the O, C and D read as stretched octagons, the zero is crossed by a diagonal slash, and the lowercase l ends in a tail that separates it from the capital I, which carries full-width serifs, and from the figure 1. The family is a variable font with one axis, weight, running from Regular 400 to Bold 700, with Medium and SemiBold as named steps between: 4 styles, upright only. Its 486 glyphs cover Western and Central European Latin. Isa Ozler is the designer, the name table gives Kadena LLC as manufacturer, and the official description presents the face as custom-made for the developer community.

Where Kode Mono works

Code editors and terminals

Fixed character widths keep indentation aligned, and the slashed zero, tailed l and serifed I keep look-alike characters apart.

Technical headings

At large sizes the chamfered corners become the visible motif, and Bold 700 gives a hero line enough weight.

Syntax emphasis by weight

With no italic in the family, the four weights from Regular to Bold can mark keywords, comments and selections.

Dashboards and readouts

Because every digit has the same width, columns of numbers and timestamps stay aligned as values change.

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 Kode 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 Kode 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: "Kode Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/KodeMono-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Kode 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=Kode+Mono:wght@400..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One variable file

The package contains a single variable font covering 400 to 700. Static files for the individual weights are available from the official source.

No italics

Kode Mono is upright only; there is no italic or oblique style.

Nothing lighter than Regular

The weight axis starts at 400, so the family has no Light or Thin.

FAQs

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