More Monospaced Type Goodness: Ten Free Fonts
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Last summer, Craig wrote a post on the best monospaced fonts for programmers. Monospaced fonts are not just for developers, designers can have fun with them, too. So today, as it’s Font Friday, we have another handpicked selection of fonts for your designing pleasure. But first, if you’re new to typography here’s a brief explanation of what distinguishes this type category from others.
A monospaced or fixed-width font is a font, where each letter occupies the same amount of space. These fonts were originally designed for typewriters and have quite a distinct look about them. Courier is undoubtedly one of the most well-known monospaced fonts, particularly for web designers as it’s one of the web safe fonts. In the example below, you can see that each letter on the top line is the same width. The letter l takes up the same room horizontally as the letter o. In the case of Times New Roman, each letter has a different width.
So let’s get on with it, here’s a bunch of good-looking monospaced fonts that are free to download. As always check the license on each for full info on how you can use the font.
Future Fixed-Width by W.S.I. Fonts
Monofur by Tobias B. Koehler
Unispace by Ray Larabie
B.P. Mono (there is also an italic and bold version of this)
Newport Gothic by Roger White
Monospace Typewriter by Manfred Klein Fonteria Fonts
Andale Mono by Microsoft
Anonymous by Mark Simonson
Onuava by The Scriptorium
What other monospaced fonts would you recommend?
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Link for Anonymous leads to Andale-mono!
Thanks!!!!!
Thank you! I like mono-spaced fonts a lot!
Another great free monospaced font, by far my favourite one when printing code, is Latin Modern Mono (derived from Computer Modern Teletype, well known to TeX users).
Anonymous is found at
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Anonymous
not
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Andale-Mono
the link has the wrong URL
Some very nice fonts here. The Anonymous font can be found at FontSquirrel, same as the Andale Mono link.
The proper link for Anonymous is http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Anonymous
Sweet! I’ll be playing around with these for a little while :D
Thanks JonathanPDX — link fixed!
You should definitely use Anonymous Pro rather than Anonymous, it’s free as in ‘free beer’ but also free as in ‘free of design mistakes’: http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html
I also would’ve added Inconsolata, which is great as well: http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
Triskweline by Henning Koch at http://www.netalive.org/tinkering/triskweline/ is a great monospaced programmer’s font
Excellent resources to reference! Thank you for researching these and posting them.
Another fantastic typography site / forum to find exclusive / new and foundry fonts is http://www.pilo.me
It is the best private typography forum for graphic designers / type lovers on the internet with an unbelievable amount of free fonts, premium fonts and exclusive typefaces. I believe it is an invite only site, similar to ffffound and behance, but a little more homegrown, personal and underground, but the content they have available is amazing. I also think it was just voted the best typography forum of 2009. Anyhow, check it out if you want, pilo.me
Thank you again for the excellent information, long time reader third time poster. I will definitely be bookmarking this!
I believe it is an invite only site, similar to ffffound and behance, but a little more homegrown, personal and underground, but the content they have available is amazing.
http://www.mojodawg.com
http://www.getmysiteonlinenow.com