Syne Mono

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Syne Mono Regular

About Syne Mono

Syne Mono is a monospaced typeface in which every character occupies the same width, yet the outlines look deliberately disturbed. The official notes explain why: the design began as Syne Regular and was passed through DataFace, a tool by Bonjour Monde that turns on-curve points into off-curve points and the reverse. In the specimen the effect is plain to see. Round letters such as o, a and e get chamfered, almost octagonal bowls, while straight stems in M, y and A bulge and pinch as if drawn with a swelling brush. The wider Syne family was designed in 2017 for the art centre Synesthésie in Saint-Denis, near Paris; it was conceived by Bonjour Monde and drawn by Lucas Descroix with help from Arman Mohtadji. Syne Mono comes as one Regular style with 603 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Syne Mono works

Art and culture posters

The family was made for an art centre, and the chamfered bowls and swelling stems give a title an experimental, processed look.

Titles for generative or glitch work

The letters are themselves the output of an automated point-swapping tool, which suits projects about code-made imagery.

Tabular display settings

Fixed character widths let short labels, dates and numbers stack in columns on a programme or schedule.

Contrast with Syne

Set beside Syne, its parent design, Syne Mono marks captions, tags or metadata as a distinct voice within one family.

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
• 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 Syne 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 Syne 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: "Syne Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SyneMono-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Syne 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=Syne+Mono&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Monospaced, but not a coding face

Widths are fixed, yet the outlines are distorted on purpose. The irregular stems make long passages and small sizes harder to read.

One style

Syne Mono has Regular 400 only, with no bold or italic.

Part of a three-member family

The official notes list Syne and Syne Tactile as the other members.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All monospace fonts