Space Mono

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Space Mono Regular Italic
• Bold 700Space Mono Bold Bold Italic

About Space Mono

Space Mono is a monospaced family that Colophon Foundry designed for Google Design. Unlike most fixed-width fonts it was developed for editorial headlines and display settings: the official notes describe a geometric base with grotesque details and qualities borrowed from headline faces of the 1960s that later became associated with science fiction. In the specimen the round letters are close to circles, the a is a one-storey bowl, i, j, l and r stand on slab feet, and the y ends in a flat horizontal stroke. The family has Regular and Bold, each with an italic, four styles in all, as static files. Each font holds 760 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Features include superscripts and subscripts, fractions, old-style figures, arrows and stylistic alternates. Colophon Foundry, credited with Benjamin Critton, is based in London and Los Angeles.

Where Space Mono works

Editorial headlines

The family was developed for headline and display typography, and the Bold cut gives a fixed-width title real weight.

Science-fiction and retro-tech graphics

Round, geometric letters with slab feet recall the space-age headline lettering the design refers to.

Code and terminal text

Every character has the same width, and Regular, Bold and their italics cover the styles a syntax theme asks for.

Captions, credits and metadata

Small fixed-width lines mark dates, issue numbers and credits apart from proportional body text.

Tables with arrows and fractions

Directional arrows, fractions and superscript numerals are included in the 760 glyphs.

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

Character sets found in the files: 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 Space 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 Space 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: "Space Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SpaceMono-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Space Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SpaceMono-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Space Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SpaceMono-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Space Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SpaceMono-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

Two weights only

Space Mono has Regular 400 and Bold 700; there are no intermediate or light weights.

Static files

The four styles are separate TTF files. The family is not a variable font.

Wide for a monospace

Near-circular round letters make lines longer than in narrower coding fonts, so check line length in an editor.

FAQs

Collections with Space Mono

• 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.

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