Roboto Mono

Try Roboto Mono

Weights and styles

• Thin 100Roboto Mono Thin Thin Italic
• ExtraLight 200Roboto Mono ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Roboto Mono Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Roboto Mono Regular Italic
• Medium 500Roboto Mono Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Roboto Mono SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Roboto Mono Bold Bold Italic

Roboto 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 Roboto Mono

Roboto Mono is a monospaced typeface in which every character takes the same width. The official notes explain how the Roboto shapes were adapted to that constraint: narrow letters such as I, l and i gain serifs to even out the texture, wide letters are adjusted in weight, and round capitals take straighter sides. Characters that matter in source code are kept distinct: the digit 1, lowercase l and capital I differ, zero differs from capital O, curly braces have pronounced points, and full stops and commas are enlarged. The specimen shows the slab-like feet on i, j and l. Roboto Mono is variable in weight from 100 to 700, with seven named weights, each with an italic, 14 styles in total. Its 999 glyphs cover Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese sets. Christian Robertson is credited as designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Roboto Mono works

Code editors and terminals

Distinct shapes for 1, l and I and for zero and O reduce misreadings in identifiers and hashes.

Code samples in documentation

Seven weights with italics let a stylesheet mark comments in italic and keywords in Medium or Bold.

Aligned data and logs

Fixed character width keeps columns of numbers, timestamps and log fields aligned without a table.

Technical labels beside Roboto

It belongs to the Roboto family, so version numbers and keyboard shortcuts match surrounding Roboto 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
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian
• Greek

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, 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 Roboto 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 Roboto 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: "Roboto Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/RobotoMono-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Roboto Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/RobotoMono-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Roboto 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=Roboto+Mono:ital,wght@0,100..700;1,100..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Heaviest weight is Bold

The axis runs from Thin 100 to Bold 700. There is no ExtraBold or Black.

Two variable files

Roman and italic are separate files.

Every character fills a cell

Because i and l occupy the same width as m and w, a line in Roboto Mono runs longer than the same line in Roboto.

FAQs

Collections with Roboto 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.

• Fonts that support Greek

  Open-license families with Greek glyphs beside Latin, for Greek-language sites and for mathematics, science and classics.

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