The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Hubot Sans
A free alternative to Stretch Pro.
About Hubot Sans
Hubot Sans is the squarer, more mechanical counterpart to Mona Sans, drawn for GitHub by Degarism in 2022 and released open-source through Google Fonts. Where its sibling stays neutral, Hubot flattens its curves toward the rectangle and tightens the joins, producing a deliberately robotic character — technical, faintly industrial, and considerably louder at display sizes than at text sizes.
That temperament is the whole point. Hubot Sans was built for the expressive display moments in GitHub's brand system rather than for body copy, and it behaves the same way anywhere else: set it large in headlines, section openers, product names, and interface accents, and let something quieter carry the paragraphs. Used alongside Mona Sans it gives a system two registers — one plain, one emphatic — without introducing an unrelated typeface.
- Designer
- GitHub with Degarism
- Released
- 2022
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
Hubot Sans is also a free alternative to…
- Stretch Pro → Mona Sans's squarer sibling, also variable with a width axis up to 125 percent. Its flattened curves and tighter apertures push it toward the futuristic, technical look that Stretch Pro aims for, making it a closer match for sports and gaming branding than the rounder Mona.
- Nimbus Sans Extended → Mona Sans's engineered sibling, with the same width axis to a wide setting but squarer, more mechanical curves. At its widest it gives an extended grotesque with an industrial edge, closer to the signage feel Nimbus Sans Extended often serves than the softer Mona.
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