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Free font
Roboto Mono
A free alternative to Courier.
About Roboto Mono
Roboto Mono is Google's monospaced companion to Roboto, drawn by Christian Robertson and released in 2015 as a contemporary, screen-tuned fixed-width face rather than a typewriter revival. It carries Roboto's proportions into a monospace grid, so the letterforms stay recognizably grotesque — upright, even in color, and legible down to small code sizes — while the fixed advance width does the alignment work.
That modern finish is what separates it from Courier, the face it most commonly replaces. Courier brings slab serifs and a distinctly mechanical, inked-ribbon character; Roboto Mono keeps the column alignment and drops the typewriter aesthetic entirely. Pick it for code blocks, terminals, data tables, and technical UI where monospaced structure is needed but a retro register would be wrong — especially in products already set in Roboto, where the two families sit together naturally.
- Designer
- Christian Robertson (Google)
- Released
- 2015
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
Roboto Mono is also a free alternative to…
- Courier → Google's monospaced companion to Roboto. Less typewriter-character than Courier, more contemporary screen-tuned mono — pick this when you want monospace alignment without the slab-serif typewriter aesthetic.
- SF Mono → Google's monospaced companion to Roboto occupies the same role SF Mono does for Apple: a fixed-width sibling of the platform sans. Its forms are a touch more open and mechanical than SF Mono's, but the overall rhythm, weight range and cool neutrality are close, and it loads from Google Fonts without restriction.
- Consolas → Google's monospaced extension of Roboto, with narrow, upright forms and a neutral tone close to Consolas's compact footprint. It feels more geometric and less humanist in its curves, but offers a comparable range of weights and italics for terminals and code blocks.
- NB Architekt → Google's monospaced Roboto is a plain, evenly stroked fixed-width family in seven weights with italics. It matches NB Architekt's monoline, no-nonsense construction for interface and tabular work, but its humanist-leaning shapes are softer than Neubau's strict architectural drafting lettering.
- Pitch Sans → Google's monospaced companion to Roboto keeps the plain, neutral sans forms that Pitch Sans uses and comes in seven weights with italics. Its proportions are a little narrower and its personality more generic, but it is a dependable stand-in wherever a clean fixed-width sans is needed.
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