The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Source Code Pro
A free alternative to Courier.
About Source Code Pro
Source Code Pro is Adobe's open-source monospace, drawn by Paul D. Hunt in 2012 for coding and interface work and now one of the most widely deployed free fixed-width families. Its apertures are wider and its spacing more generous than the typewriter monospaces that preceded it, which keeps character shapes distinct where a code editor packs them tightly together.
Against Courier, the difference is clarity at small sizes. Courier's narrow, lightly drawn slab forms were built for typewriter output and go soft on screen; Source Code Pro renders sharply and stays legible in dense listings. It's the workhorse choice for code blocks, technical documentation, terminal output, and anywhere ambiguous characters need to be told apart at a glance, and it pairs cleanly with the rest of Adobe's Source family.
- Designer
- Paul D. Hunt (Adobe)
- Released
- 2012
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
Source Code Pro is also a free alternative to…
- Courier → Adobe's open-source monospace, drawn by Paul D. Hunt for coding and UI. Wider apertures and more generous spacing than Courier — sharper at small screen sizes, the workhorse choice for code blocks and technical documentation.
- SF Mono → Adobe's open monospaced face, extended from Source Sans, gives a quiet humanist alternative to SF Mono's grotesque base. Letterforms are a little rounder and softer, and the seven-weight range runs lighter at the thin end, but it is equally comfortable in terminals, editors and documentation, and ships on Google Fonts.
- Consolas → Adobe's open-source monospaced companion to Source Sans, with the same humanist warmth and a dotted zero that keeps digits unambiguous. Its letterforms are slightly wider and more open than Consolas, but the overall register for code on screen is the closest match in the catalog.
- New Heterodox Mono → Adobe's open-source coding family, sans-serif in construction but with the same priority on legibility at small sizes and clear distinction between similar glyphs. It trades the Didone flavour for a neutral, even texture, and offers nine weights, italics and broad Latin, Greek and Cyrillic support.
- Pitch Sans → Adobe's monospaced extension of Source Sans gives a calm, humanist fixed-pitch sans with a broad weight range from ExtraLight to Black. It is softer and less deliberately typewriter-like than Pitch Sans, but it handles the same jobs in code, tables and captions with similar even texture.
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