Space Mono by Colophon

Space Mono is an original monospace display typeface family designed by Colophon Foundry for Google Design.

It supports a Latin Extended glyph set, enabling typesetting for English and other Western European languages.

Developed explicitly for use in headline and display typography, the letterforms infuse a geometric slab core with novel over-rationalized forms.

License

Space Mono is available under the SIL Open Font License v1.1, for more details see OFL.txt

Contributions

The project is led by Colophon, a type design foundry based in London and Los Angeles. To contribute ideas and feedback, see github.com/googlefonts/spacemono

We may accept contributions via GitHub pull requests, but require all authors to sign the Google Contributor License. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.

Disclaimer

This is not an official Google product (experimental or otherwise,) it is just work that happens to be owned by Google.

Source Files

└── sources
    ├── FontMenuNameDB # Contains font family names for each style naming
    ├── Roman # Two folders containing all of the information needed to build the fonts
    │   ├── Bold
    │   │   ├── GlyphOrderAndAliasDB
    │   │   ├── Space-Mono-Bold-NH.ttf                    # Non-hinted TTF
    │   │   ├── Space-Mono-Bold-source.ttf                # Hinted Source
    │   │   ├── Space-Mono-Bold.ttf                       # Final TTF
    │   │   ├── Space-Mono-Bold_QUADRATIC.vfb             # Quadratic source VFB
    │   │   ├── Space-Mono-Bold.vfb                       # Cubic (PS) source VFB
    │   │   ├── current.fpr
    │   │   ├── features
    │   │   └── fontinfo
    │   └── Regular
    │       ├── GlyphOrderAndAliasDB
    │       ├── Space-Mono-Regular-NH.ttf                 # Non-hinted TTF
    │       ├── Space-Mono-Regular-source.ttf             # Hinted Source
    │       ├── Space-Mono-Regular.ttf                    # Final TTF
    │       ├── Space-Mono-Regular_QUADRATIC.vfb          # Quadratic source VFB
    │       ├── Space-Mono-Regular.vfb                    # Cubic (PS) source VFB
    │       ├── current.fpr
    │       ├── features
    │       └── fontinfo
    └── Italics # Two folders containing all of the information needed to build the fonts
        ├── Bold Italic
        │   ├── GlyphOrderAndAliasDB
        │   ├── Space-Mono-Bold-Italic-NH.ttf             # Non-hinted TTF
        │   ├── Space-Mono-Bold-Italic-source.ttf         # Hinted Source
        │   ├── Space-Mono-Bold-Italic.ttf                # Final TTF
        │   ├── Space-Mono-Bold-Italic_QUADRATIC.vfb      # Quadratic source VFB
        │   ├── Space-Mono-Bold-ItalicC.vfb               # Cubic (PS) source VFB
        │   ├── current.fpr
        │   ├── features
        │   └── fontinfo
        └── Regular Italic
            ├── GlyphOrderAndAliasDB
            ├── Space-Mono-Regular-Italic-NH.ttf          # Non-hinted TTF
            ├── Space-Mono-Regular-Italic-source.ttf      # Hinted Source
            ├── Space-Mono-Regular-Italic.ttf             # Final TTF
            ├── Space-Mono-Regular-Italic_QUADRATIC.vfb   # Quadratic source VFB
            ├── Space-Mono-Regular-Italic.vfb             # Cubic (PS) source VFB
            ├── current.fpr
            ├── features
            └── fontinfo

Build Instructions

Use the Adobe AFDKO to build each file similar to this:

cd Sources/Roman/Regular;
makeotf -r -f Space-Mono-Regular-source.ttf -o Space-Mono-Regular.ttf;
ttfautohint Space-Mono-Regular.ttf Space-Mono-Regular-hinted.ttf;
fontbakery-fix-dsig.py Space-Mono-Regular-hinted.ttf --autofix;
mv Space-Mono-Regular-hinted.ttf.fix SpaceMono-Regular.ttf;