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Monaspace Xenon

Designed By

Riley Cran & the Lettermatic Team

14 Styles Monospace

Type Specimen / 01Il1 O0
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Monaspace Xenon · 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 Xenon ↓

OTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1

Set Your Own Text

Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.

TODO: handle empty response

Every Position Counts

Monaspace Xenon · Regular

Equal-width letters and figures.

Specimen.js

const family = "Monaspace Xenon";

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

TODO: handle empty response

Extra Light Italic200

TODO: handle empty response

Light300

TODO: handle empty response

Light Italic300

TODO: handle empty response

Regular400

TODO: handle empty response

Italic400

TODO: handle empty response

Medium500

TODO: handle empty response

Medium Italic500

TODO: handle empty response

Semi Bold600

TODO: handle empty response

Semi Bold Italic600

TODO: handle empty response

Bold700

TODO: handle empty response

Bold Italic700

TODO: handle empty response

Extra Bold800

TODO: handle empty response

Extra Bold Italic800

TODO: handle empty response

What if a docstring looked authoritative, marked out from the code by its letterforms on top of its color? That is 1 of the ideas GitHub Next floats for Monaspace, and our guess for the job would be Xenon, the slab serif of the 5.

The trick behind the idea is shared metrics. All 5 Monaspace families sit on the same grid, so you can set comments in Xenon and code in Neon, the neo-grotesque, and the columns still line up. Argon is the humanist sans, Radon a handwriting face and Krypton a mechanical sans. Lettermatic drew them, with Riley Cran leading a team that included Danelle Cheney, Heather Cran, Jane Solomon and Lauren Dickens and with Ilya Ruderman consulting on the Cyrillic. GitHub Next started the project in 2022.

Xenon also carries the family’s texture healing, switched on through contextual alternates, and 10 stylistic sets of coding ligatures grouped by job: equality, arrows, markup tags, F# pipes, colons and more. Editors that cannot set OpenType features, Xcode and IntelliJ are the examples given, can use the “Frozen” builds, which have the sets turned on already.

14 styles here, Extra Light to Extra Bold with italics, normal width only. The slab serifs give a page of code more texture than the sans members do; we would try it for a full editor session before deciding, since some people find slabs restful on screen and others find them busy.

Monaspace Xenon type specimen with letters and figures
Monaspace Xenon · Type Specimen

Characters & Figures

2,460 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !

View The Recorded Character Selection
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The Font Files

Download
Monaspace Xenon

14 OTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.

Download ZIP · 3.6 MB ↓
Version
1.400
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Read The Font License ↗

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-xenon/monaspace-xenon.css">

body {
  font-family: 'Monaspace Xenon', monospace;
}

Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.

Heading & Body

The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.

Monaspace Xenon 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.