Major Mono Display

Try Major Mono Display

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Major Mono Display Regular

About Major Mono Display

Major Mono Display is a monospaced display typeface in which every character occupies the same width and every letter is a capital. It carries two alphabets. Typing in lowercase gives a thin, even-stroked geometric sans; typing in uppercase gives constructivist display characters, where the specimen shows A as an open triangle, B, C, D and E as solid black blocks, and other letters split by diagonals or built from half-circles. Mixing the two cases in one word therefore mixes outline and solid shapes, as in the family name itself. The zero is slashed, and the official notes mention further OpenType features beyond the two basic sets. The font has one style, Regular, and 716 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Emre Parlak is the designer.

Where Major Mono Display works

Large web headings

The official notes single out playful web typography at big point sizes as the main use.

Posters built on a grid

Fixed character widths align letters in columns, so stacked lines form a regular grid.

Logos with one accented letter

Typing a single capital drops one solid constructivist shape into a word of thin capitals.

Album covers and event identities

Triangles, half-circles and blocks give a title the look of an abstract composition.

Tech and studio landing pages

Monospaced thin capitals recall terminal text while staying decorative.

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 Major Mono Display

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 Major Mono Display 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: "Major Mono Display";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/MajorMonoDisplay-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Major Mono Display 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=Major+Mono+Display&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Capitals only

Both cases produce capital letters. There is no conventional lowercase.

Case switches the design

Lowercase input gives the plain sans; uppercase input gives the display forms. Text pasted in normal sentence case will start each sentence with a display letter.

Monospaced but drawn for display

Characters share one width, yet the thin strokes and decorative capitals were drawn for large sizes, not for code listings.

FAQs

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