Departure Mono

A monospaced pixel font with a lo-fi technical vibe

About

Departure Mono is a monospaced pixel font inspired by the constraints of early command-line and graphical user interfaces, the tiny pixel fonts of the late 90s/early 00s, and sci-fi concepts from film and television.

Installation

Homebrew

For macOS users, the Homebrew package manager can be used to install and upgrade the font using the font-departure-mono formula:

brew install font-departure-mono

Nix

If you're using the Nix package manager or NixOS, you can install font using its canonical name: departure-mono:

# Here's an example on how to install it using `nix profile`
nix profile install github:NixOS/nixpkgs#departure-mono
# Here's an example on how to install it using `nix-env`
nix-env -iA nixos.departure-mono

NixOS

For NixOS users, you can add the font to your system configuration by including it in fonts.packages:

{
  fonts.packages = [
    pkgs.departure-mono
  ];
}

Manual

Download the latest release from the releases page.

Usage

For pixel-perfect results, set the font size to increments of 11px.

Experiment with tighter tracking (letter-spacing) for a more comfortable read in some cases — or wider tracking for a sci-fi effect.

Licenses