Overpass Mono

Try Overpass Mono

Weights and styles

• Light 300Overpass Mono Light
• Regular 400Overpass Mono Regular
• Medium 500Overpass Mono Medium
• SemiBold 600Overpass Mono SemiBold
• Bold 700Overpass Mono Bold

Overpass 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 Overpass Mono

Overpass Mono is a monospaced family in which every character occupies the same width, reworked from the proportional Overpass typeface. Overpass itself interprets the lettering standard of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration for road signs, adjusted for screens. The mono version keeps those open, sturdy shapes and adds what code needs: a zero marked with a slash, an l with a curved foot, and an i and j with horizontal bars that fill out their cells. It is a variable font with one axis, weight, from 300 to 700, and five named weights: Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold. There is no italic. The 1,791 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended and Vietnamese. Delve Withrington, Dave Bailey and Thomas Jockin are the credited designers, and the fonts are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Overpass Mono works

Code editors

The slashed zero and the footed l keep 0, O, 1 and l apart in source code.

Terminals and logs

Equal character widths line up columns of output, and Medium or SemiBold can replace Regular on dim displays.

Code samples beside Overpass text

The mono shares its letter shapes with Overpass, so inline code matches the surrounding sans serif.

Comments and strings in Cyrillic

Cyrillic is included, so comments, identifiers and test data in that script stay in the same monospace.

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
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, 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 Overpass 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 Overpass 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: "Overpass Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/OverpassMono-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Overpass 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=Overpass+Mono:wght@300..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italic

Overpass Mono is upright only; editors that italicise comments will slant it artificially.

Weight range 300 to 700

The axis is narrower than that of the proportional Overpass family and opens at Light 300 by default.

One variable file

The package holds the variable font. Static files for the named weights are available from the official source.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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