Commit Mono
Designed By
Eigil Nikolajsen
12 Styles Monospace
Type Specimen / 01Il1 O0
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Commit Mono · Regular
Compare letter widths, punctuation and figures in an aligned setting.
12 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Commit Mono ↓OTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
let retries = 3
Every Position Counts
Commit Mono · Regular
Equal-width letters and figures.
Specimen.js
const family = "Commit Mono";
function specimen(size) {
return { family, size };
}
specimen(24);0123456789
9876543210
Il1 O0 {} []
12 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Extra Light200
let retries = 3
Extra Light Italic200
let retries = 3
Light300
let retries = 3
Light Italic300
let retries = 3
Regular400
let retries = 3
Italic400
let retries = 3
Medium500
let retries = 3
Medium Italic500
let retries = 3
Semi Bold600
let retries = 3
Semi Bold Italic600
let retries = 3
Bold700
let retries = 3
Bold Italic700
let retries = 3
In most monospaced fonts an i floats alone in a box built to hold an m. Commit Mono keeps the boxes and lets the letters lean. Eigil Nikolajsen calls the trick smart kerning: when a letter stands between 2 neighbors from different width classes, it slides toward the narrower one, and in the example on his site an o moves 44 units. Every glyph still has the same advance, so columns in a diff or a table line up the way they always did.
It lives in the calt feature, and an editor switches it on with its font ligatures setting. Nikolajsen left out the ligatures that are only decoration. What is there does a job, like != drawn as a single not-equal sign.
He describes the face as anonymous and neutral, a coding font that keeps out of the way, and lists Fira Code and JetBrains Mono among the fonts he studied while making it in FontLab 8.
- 6 weights, Extra Light 200 to Bold 700, each with an italic, 12 files in all.
- 1,175 characters covering Latin with a wide spread of accents, plus Greek; Cyrillic is announced as coming.
- 5 stylistic sets with alternate letters.
- Version 1.143.
Over on commitmono.com a builder bakes your chosen alternates, weight, letter spacing and line height into a custom download. Nikolajsen’s own advice is weight 400 on a dark background and 450 on a light one. Our pick for a laptop screen would be the Regular with smart kerning left on; the shifts are small, and after a day of reading code in it you stop noticing them at all.
Characters & Figures
1,175 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
View The Recorded Character Selection
The Font Files
Download
Commit Mono
12 OTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 832 KB ↓- Version
- 1.143
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/commit-mono/commit-mono.css">
body {
font-family: 'Commit Mono', monospace;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Commit Mono Heading · Inter Body
Letters, Figures & Code
Names, values and punctuation share a fixed rhythm. Compare the zero with the capital O, and the number one with the lowercase l.