Xanh Mono

Try Xanh Mono

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Xanh Mono Regular Italic

About Xanh Mono

Xanh Mono is a monospaced typeface with serifs, an unusual combination its designers call a mono-serif. Every character sits on the same width, yet the drawing is that of a narrow, high-contrast text face: heavy vertical stems, hairline serifs and crossbars, and round ball terminals on a, c, f, j and r. Wide letters such as m and w are compressed to fit the cell, while i, j and l grow long slab feet to fill it. The designers, Lam Bao and Duy Dao of Yellow Type Foundry, explain that 'xanh' in Vietnamese can mean blue, green or young, and they intend the face for both reading and display. The family has one weight in Regular and Italic. It holds 497 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese, and is not a variable font.

Where Xanh Mono works

Editorial headlines in fixed width

Hairline serifs and ball terminals give a monospaced title the contrast of a magazine display face.

Vietnamese typography

The font was made by Vietnamese designers and includes the full set of stacked Vietnamese accents.

Poetry, captions and colophons

Fixed-width setting gives short texts a typewritten structure with a more refined letter.

Posters and zines

Large sizes show the contrast between thick stems and thin serifs, and the even grid of characters.

Tabular layouts with character

Columns of names and numbers align by construction, since every glyph has the same width.

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

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

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

Things to know

One weight

Xanh Mono has Regular and Italic at weight 400 only. There is no bold for emphasis.

Hairlines at small sizes

The thin serifs and crossbars are fine lines; at small screen sizes they can fade, which matters for code.

No Cyrillic or Greek

Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese are covered.

FAQs

Collections with Xanh Mono

• Fonts that support Vietnamese

  Open-license families that include the stacked diacritics Vietnamese needs, among them several designed in or for Vietnam.

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