Monoton
Every stroke is drawn as a set of parallel lines rather than as a solid, which is a technique from the inline display faces of the 1930s and reappears on every neon sign and disco poster since. It only works large: below about 40px the lines merge and the letters turn into grey blocks. One weight, all capitals, and it is one of the few faces here that genuinely cannot be used for anything else.
Alphabets
Style
Specification
- Designer
- Vernon Adams
- Released
- 2011
- Category
- Display
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Titles, Posters, Logotypes, Packaging
- Weights
- 400
- Styles
- Normal
- Variable
- No
- Glyphs
- 373
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe
- Download size
- 28 KB
Size ladder
96
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
64
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
40
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
24
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
16
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
12
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Monoton character map
Uppercase
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Lowercase
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- u
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
Numerals
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
Punctuation & symbols
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- †
- •
- …
Use Monoton on the web
Self-hosted
@font-face {
font-family: 'Monoton';
/* The download contains .ttf files. Put yours wherever you serve static
files from and point this at it. Converting to .woff2 first cuts the
size by roughly 60% and every current browser supports it. */
src: url('/fonts/monoton.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Monoton', sans-serif;
}Hosted by us
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/monoton.css">body {
font-family: 'Monoton', sans-serif;
}Monoton license
OFL-1.1
You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.
Commercial use allowed
Questions
- Is Monoton free for commercial use?
- Yes. Monoton is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.
- Can I use Monoton in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Monoton belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Vernon Adams. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Monoton?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 1 font file inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up.
- Does Monoton support Turkish?
- Yes. Monoton includes the characters Türkçe needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.
- What languages does Monoton support?
- Yes. Monoton covers Latin, Latin Extended and Turkish, across 373 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.