Sometype Mono

Try Sometype Mono

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Sometype Mono Regular Italic
• Medium 500Sometype Mono Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Sometype Mono SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Sometype Mono Bold Bold Italic

Sometype 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 Sometype Mono

Sometype Mono is a monospaced sans serif family in which every character sits on the same width. The specimen shows a slashed zero, a lowercase l that ends in a curved tail and an i with a long foot, details that keep look-alike characters apart in a line of code. Curves are open and round, and braces, brackets and quotation marks are drawn large. The family runs from Regular 400 to Bold 700 in four weights, each with an italic, which makes 8 styles; the weight axis of the variable files covers the same 400 to 700 range. The fonts contain 562 glyphs in Latin and Latin Extended character sets. Ryoichi Tsunekawa, who works in Japan, is credited as the designer, the name table lists Dharma Type as manufacturer, and the files carry the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Sometype Mono works

Code editors and terminals

The slashed zero and the tailed l separate 0 from O and l from 1 and I, which matters in identifiers and hashes.

Tables, logs and config files

Every glyph shares one width, so columns of numbers and key-value pairs line up without tab stops.

Code samples in documentation

Italics for comments and SemiBold or Bold for keywords give syntax highlighting more to work with than colour alone.

Technical labels in interfaces

Medium 500 holds up for short fixed-width strings such as version numbers, shortcuts and file paths beside a proportional text face.

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 Sometype 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 Sometype 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: "Sometype Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SometypeMono-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Sometype Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SometypeMono-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Sometype 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=Sometype+Mono:ital,wght@0,400..700;1,400..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

The range starts at Regular

The weight axis runs from 400 to 700. There is no Light or Thin cut below Regular and nothing heavier than Bold.

Two variable files

The download holds one variable file for the upright styles and one for the italics; the static cuts are available from the official source.

Latin character sets only

The subsets are Latin and Latin Extended. No Cyrillic or Greek subset is listed for the family.

FAQs

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