Monofett

Try Monofett

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Monofett Regular

About Monofett

Monofett is a display typeface built from tiles: each letter is a thin, squared outline reversed out of a dark block with rounded corners. All blocks share one width, so the face is monospaced, and neighbouring blocks touch to form a continuous band with scalloped edges. The lowercase row repeats the capital shapes except for a and e, which have their own small-letter forms. Vernon Adams started the design as custom branding for mountain bikes and describes the font as bold, decal-like and technical in feel. The family is a single Regular style and is not variable. Its 434 glyphs span the Latin and Latin Extended subsets; the project notes say language support was widened in an update. Google Fonts files it under monospace, but the reversed blocks make it a headline design, not a code font.

Where Monofett works

Stickers, decals and merchandise

The design started as bike branding; a word forms a self-contained strip that can be cut out or printed as a badge.

Game and tech titles

Squared letters inside tiles resemble keys or panel labels, which fits interface-themed artwork.

Logos and event names

Because the background block is part of each glyph, a short name becomes a solid shape without drawing a container.

Poster headings

Equal-width tiles stack into even rows, so several short lines align as a grid.

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 Monofett

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

body {
  font-family: "Monofett", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Monofett 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=Monofett&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

The block is part of the letter

Colouring the text colours the tiles; the letters themselves show the background through.

Mostly one case

Only a and e differ between upper and lower case. Other lowercase letters reuse the capital forms.

Monospaced, but not for code

Every glyph has the same advance width, yet the reversed tiles are unsuitable for reading source code or long text.

One style

Monofett has Regular 400 only, with no italic.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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