Introducing buena mono
A free, open-source variable monospaced font with coding ligatures, small caps, and 3 variable axes. Designed for code editors, terminals, and markdown writing.
We’re designing buena mono — a monospaced typeface for writers and developers.
Most monospaced fonts optimize for one thing: code. That’s fine if you only write code. But if you spend your day moving between a terminal, a code editor, and a markdown document, you want a font that handles all three well. That’s what we’re building.
What makes it different
Variable font with 3 axes. Weight (Thin to ExtraBold), slant (upright to -10 degrees), and optical size (8px to 48px caption-to-display). One file, infinite combinations.
146 coding ligatures. Arrows, comparisons, pipes, logical operators — the sequences you type every day rendered as single, readable glyphs. All via calt, so they’re easy to toggle in any editor.
Small caps. Full smcp and c2sc support with 59 glyphs. Useful for abbreviations in prose, status labels in TUIs, or anywhere you want emphasis without shouting.
1675 glyphs across 80+ languages. Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts. Box drawing characters for TUI layouts. Powerline symbols for terminal prompts.
The details
- 30 masters (5 weights x 2 slants x 3 optical sizes)
- 27 OpenType features including 12 stylistic sets
- Oldstyle figures, subscripts, superscripts, and fractions
- Available as TTF, WOFF2, and OTF/CFF2
Free and open source
buena mono is released under the SIL Open Font License. Use it in personal projects, commercial products, or anything in between. Fork it, modify it, redistribute it.
You can explore the full specimen at buena-mono.buenalabs.io and grab the latest release from GitHub.