# Xanh Mono font

> A high-contrast serif monospace from Vietnam's Yellow Type, by Lam Bao and Duy Dao, with a true italic.

Xanh Mono is a monospaced serif typeface by Lam Bao and Duy Dao of Yellow Type Foundry, pairing fixed-width spacing with thin hairlines and ball terminals. Xanh Mono has one weight in two styles, Regular and Italic, with 497 glyphs including Vietnamese. Xanh Mono is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 for reading and display.

## Facts

- Classification: [Monospace](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/monospace)
- Designed by: Yellow Type, Lâm Bảo, Duy Dao
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 2 (Regular 400; with italics)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 497
- Character sets: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
- Last updated: 2025-09-08
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Xanh+Mono
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/xanh-mono
- Tagged for: Headlines, Editorial, Elegant

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2020 The XanhMono Project Authors (https://github.com/yellow-type-foundry/xanhmono).

Allowed:
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions:
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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

### Is Xanh Mono free for commercial use?

Yes. Xanh Mono is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

### Who designed Xanh Mono?

Xanh Mono was designed by Lam Bao and Duy Dao of Yellow Type Foundry.

### What does Xanh mean?

According to the designers of Xanh Mono, 'xanh' is a Vietnamese word with several meanings, among them blue, green and young.

### How many styles does Xanh Mono have?

Xanh Mono has two styles, Regular and Italic, both at weight 400.

### Is Xanh Mono good for coding?

Xanh Mono is fixed-width, so code aligns, but its hairline serifs are drawn with reading and display in mind and get faint at small sizes.

### Which languages does Xanh Mono support?

Xanh Mono includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Polish, Turkish and Vietnamese.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/xanh-mono (trendhub)