Red Hat Mono

Try Red Hat Mono

Weights and styles

• Light 300Red Hat Mono Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Red Hat Mono Regular Italic
• Medium 500Red Hat Mono Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Red Hat Mono SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Red Hat Mono Bold Bold Italic

Red Hat Mono is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Red Hat Mono

Red Hat Mono is a monospaced typeface in which every character occupies the same width. It belongs to the Red Hat type family, which, per the official notes, Jeremy Mickel of MCKL designed for Red Hat's new brand identity on a commission from Paula Scher at Pentagram; beside the mono, the family has two proportional optical sizes. The specimen shows geometric round letters, even stroke weight and a zero crossed by a diagonal slash, which keeps it apart from the capital O in code. Two variable files, upright and italic, each carry a weight axis from 300 to 700 with five named weights, Light to Bold, 10 styles in total. A November 2024 update adjusted the Medium and SemiBold weights to even out the range. The fonts hold 431 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended and use the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Red Hat Mono works

Code editors and terminals

Fixed character widths keep indentation aligned, and the slashed zero separates 0 from O in identifiers.

Code samples in documentation

Italic files and weights up to Bold 700 let comments and highlighted lines differ within a snippet.

Logs and tables

Because every glyph has one width, columns of numbers and timestamps line up without table markup.

Technical material beside Red Hat Text

The mono was drawn as part of one family, so inline code matches the surrounding sans in style.

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 Red Hat 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 Red Hat 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: "Red Hat Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/RedHatMono-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Red Hat Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/RedHatMono-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Red Hat 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=Red+Hat+Mono:ital,wght@0,300..700;1,300..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Five weights, 300 to 700

The axis covers Light to Bold. There is no thin or black weight.

Two variable files

Upright and italic are separate variable files; the static instances are not in this package.

Latin and Latin Extended only

Red Hat Mono has no Cyrillic, Greek or Vietnamese character set.

FAQs

Collections with Red Hat Mono

• Monospace fonts for coding

  Fixed-width open-license families for editors and terminals, with clear zeros, several weights and, in most cases, italics.

• Type systems with matching sans, serif and mono families

  Families designed to be used together: a sans, a serif or slab and often a monospace that share proportions, weights and character.

Similar fonts

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