Monoton

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Monoton Regular

About Monoton

Monoton is a display typeface in which each stroke is split into several thin parallel lines, so that letters resemble bent tubing or striped ribbon. The official notes call it a contemporary take on multi-line metal typefaces of the early 1930s and a pure display font, meant for sizes above 30 points. The skeleton underneath is a wide geometric sans: O is a set of concentric rings, and A, M and N are assembled from straight bands. Lowercase keys give letters at capital height; most repeat the capitals, while a few, such as a, m and q, take rounder forms in the specimen. There is one Regular style and no italic. The font holds 371 glyphs for the Latin and Latin Extended character sets. Vernon Adams designed Monoton, and it is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Monoton works

Music and club posters

The striped strokes turn a band or event name into the main graphic of the sheet.

Neon-style titles

Parallel lines following each curve look like glass tubing in title cards and sign mock-ups.

Wordmarks

A short name set large keeps the concentric rings of O and the banded diagonals legible.

Retro-themed headers

The link to 1930s multi-line types gives a page header a period feel with a single line of text.

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
• 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 Monoton

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

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

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

Things to know

Meant for 30 points and up

The official notes state that Monoton is designed for sizes above 30 points.

No true lowercase

Lowercase input produces capital-height letters, a few of them in alternate rounded shapes.

One style

Monoton has a single Regular weight; the density of the lines cannot be changed.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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