# Red Hat Mono font

> The monospaced member of the Red Hat type family: a variable font from Light 300 to Bold 700 with italics.

Red Hat Mono is the monospaced typeface of the Red Hat family, designed at MCKL for the Red Hat brand identity. Red Hat Mono is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 700 and italics, 10 styles in all. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits code, terminals and tabular data.

## Facts

- Classification: [Monospace](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/monospace)
- Designed by: MCKL
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 10 (Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600, Bold 700; with italics)
- Variable font: Yes (wght 300–700)
- Glyphs: 431
- Character sets: latin, latin-ext
- Last updated: 2025-09-10
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Red+Hat+Mono
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/red-hat-mono
- Tagged for: Interfaces, Code, Tech

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2024 The Red Hat Project Authors (https://github.com/RedHatOfficial/RedHatFont)

Allowed:
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions:
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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

### Is Red Hat Mono free for commercial use?

Yes, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The license lets you use Red Hat Mono in commercial and personal work, change it and pass it on; it cannot be sold by itself, and derivatives carry the same license and may not use a Reserved Font Name without permission.

### Who designed Red Hat Mono?

Red Hat Mono is credited to MCKL; the official notes name Jeremy Mickel at MCKL as designer and Paula Scher at Pentagram as the person who commissioned the Red Hat typefaces.

### How many weights does Red Hat Mono have?

Red Hat Mono has five named weights, Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600 and Bold 700, each with an italic.

### Is Red Hat Mono a variable font?

Yes. Red Hat Mono is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 700 in separate upright and italic files.

### Does Red Hat Mono have a slashed zero?

Yes. In the Red Hat Mono specimen the zero is drawn with a diagonal slash.

### What fonts pair well with Red Hat Mono?

Red Hat Mono was made to sit with Red Hat Text and Red Hat Display, the two proportional members of the same family.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/red-hat-mono (trendhub)