Nova Mono

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Nova Mono Regular

About Nova Mono

Nova Mono is a fixed-width typeface with a constructed, rounded geometry. Its designer writes that the Nova fonts go back to NovaCut, an alphabet of capitals and digits he drew years earlier for inscriptions on stone and moved to the computer in 2010; alternate letter shapes then became six fonts, and Nova Mono was added last as the monospaced seventh. The specimen shows the family trait clearly: the capitals M and N are built from arches instead of diagonals, strokes keep one thickness, corners are rounded, vertical strokes end in slanted cuts and the zero is slashed. The font is a single Regular style, not a variable font, with 1,331 glyphs across Latin, Latin Extended and Greek. Wojciech Kalinowski is the credited designer, the copyright line reads wmk69, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Nova Mono works

Code with a distinct look

Fixed widths and a slashed zero do the practical work, while the arched M and N give listings an unusual texture.

Sci-fi and game interfaces

Constructed, rounded letters of one stroke thickness fit readouts, HUD labels and terminal screens in fiction.

Technical headings

Set large, the arch-built capitals turn a section title or product code into a display line.

Greek and Latin tabular data

A Greek character set in the same fixed width lets formulas, symbols and bilingual labels align in columns.

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
• Greek

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Greek. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: greek, 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 Nova 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 Nova 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: "Nova Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/NovaMono-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

Unconventional M and N

The capitals M and N are arches, close to enlarged lowercase forms, which can slow recognition in running text.

Regular only

There is one weight, Regular 400, and no italic.

Large glyph set for one style

The font has 1,331 glyphs, with Greek alongside Latin and Latin Extended.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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