Monaspace Argon
Designed By
Riley Cran & the Lettermatic Team
14 Styles Monospace
Type Specimen / 01Il1 O0
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Monaspace Argon · Regular
Compare letter widths, punctuation and figures in an aligned setting.
14 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Monaspace Argon ↓OTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
calming the compiler warnings
Every Position Counts
Monaspace Argon · Regular
Equal-width letters and figures.
Specimen.js
const family = "Monaspace Argon";
function specimen(size) {
return { family, size };
}
specimen(24);0123456789
9876543210
Il1 O0 {} []
14 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Extra Light200
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Extra Light Italic200
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Light300
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Light Italic300
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Regular400
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Italic400
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Medium500
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Medium Italic500
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Semi Bold600
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Semi Bold Italic600
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Bold700
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Bold Italic700
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Extra Bold800
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Extra Bold Italic800
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Type the word calming in a normal monospace and the m looks squeezed while the l floats in a box too big for it. Argon fixes that as you type. Its contextual alternates spot pairs like this and swap in a slightly narrower l that gives up some of its space, and a wider m that reaches into it, all without leaving the monospaced grid. GitHub Next and Lettermatic call this texture healing.
The humanist one
Monaspace has 5 families on shared metrics, and Argon is the humanist sans among them. It shares 1 option with Neon alone, the character variant cv11, which gives alternate j, f, r and t, and like the other 3 non-mechanical members it has cv10 for different l and i shapes.
It has also traveled. LXGW Bright Code, from the maker of LXGW WenKai, pairs those Chinese characters with Argon’s Latin.
14 styles in the normal width, Extra Light to Extra Bold, each with an italic, and Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Vietnamese. If you find grotesque coding fonts cold, this is the member to try first.
Characters & Figures
2,460 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
View The Recorded Character Selection
The Font Files
Download
Monaspace Argon
14 OTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 3.3 MB ↓- Version
- 1.400
- 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/monaspace-argon/monaspace-argon.css">
body {
font-family: 'Monaspace Argon', monospace;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Monaspace Argon 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.