The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Mona Sans
GitHub’s open-source brand sans — a strong, versatile neo-grotesque with variable weight and width axes.
About Mona Sans
Mona Sans is GitHub's open-source brand sans, drawn with Degarism in 2022 and released through Google Fonts as a variable family with both weight and width axes. It's a neo-grotesque with genuine range: one file covers condensed display settings and comfortable interface text alike. The drawing is sturdy and plainspoken, with even color and conventional proportions — which is what lets it carry a large system without calling attention to itself.
Much of its usefulness comes from that width axis, still rare outside licensed families. Mona Sans can compress for navigation, tables, and tight headlines, then open back out for running copy without any change of voice, so an entire product can be typeset from one family. Pair it with Hubot Sans when the system needs a louder display register, and lean on the weight axis for hierarchy rather than reaching for a second typeface.
- Designer
- GitHub with Degarism
- Released
- 2022
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
Display + body that work together
A grammar of empty space
Crisp, even strokes give the display its punch. Quiet serifs underneath stay readable across thousands of words — used together by editors at the kind of paper that still prints corrections.
Modern · Editorial Mona Sans + Crimson Pro
Letters that hold their nerve
Two thousand years of letterforms boil down to a handful of decisions — width, weight, proportion. Pick a pair you trust, and let the rest take care of itself.