Licenses

Free SF Mono alternatives

Apple’s fixed-width face, shipped with Xcode and Terminal since 2016.

What a SF Mono substitute has to get right

The same unambiguous 0, 1, l and I, plus weights light enough to hold up as pale text on a dark terminal, which is where most of its use actually is.

The one in this archive

One entry, because one is the honest answer. A face is listed here only if the substitution would survive a designer looking at both.

  • JetBrains Mono

    Monospace · Philipp Nurullin, Konstantin Bulenkov · Variable

    Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

SF Mono is not ours and nothing here is affiliated with or endorsed by whoever owns it. The name is used to say what these free typefaces can be set instead of. Every font above is redistributable, carries its licence inside the download, and is free for commercial work.