Martian Mono

Martian Mono is a younger brother of Martian Grotesk—a variable font that I meticulously crafted for the needs of designers and web developers. Get your free trial on Gumroad.

Martian Mono is a monospaced typeface family consisting of a variable font and 28 styles: Condensed to Wide, Thin to Extra Bold. It’s not a neutral font, but despite this, it remains suitable for reading. Overhanging terminals, a closed aperture, and an almost complete lack of contrast lead to slightly brutal and assertive aesthetics.

The typeface features a tall x-height, and it has vertical metrics which guarantee equal space is present above the cap height and under the baseline. The latter makes this typeface an on-screen workhorse: it is evenly placed on buttons, inputs, lists, and forms. When coupled together, all the above features make Martian Mono a reasonable choice for any user interface design.

Prefer otf file format for macOS, and ttf for Windows.

Download

Download the latest package from the releases page.

Styles

The font has 4 styles on the width axis:

Short name	Full name	CSS percentage	CSS keyword
sWd	Semi Wide	112.5%	semi-expanded
Std	Standard	100%	normal
Nr	Narrow	87.5%	semi-condensed
Cn	Condensed	75%	condensed

And 7 weights:

Short name	Full name	CSS numeric	CSS keyword
Th	Thin	100
xLt	Extra Light	200
Lt	Light	300
Rg	Regular	400	normal
Md	Medium	500
Bd	Bold	700	bold
xBd	Extra Bold	800

OpenType features

Font size and legibility

Originally designed for the screen, the glyph height stick to the pixel grid on commonly used font sizes. In addition, it comes equipped with OpenType and TrueType hinting, and Martian Mono appears legible on most platforms, even when being rendered in small sizes.

For the best results use next pairs of size / line height:

7.5 / 10 (or 14, 18) px
10 / 12 (or 16, 20) px
12.5 / 14 (or 18, 22) px
15 / 20 (or 24, 28) px etc.

Support

If you want to support Martian Mono:

spread the word on social media,
buy Martian Grotesk,
or consider becoming a patron.