Fragment Mono

Fragment Mono is a monospaced coding version of Helvetica created by modifying and extending Nimbus Sans by URW Design Studio.

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About

Fragment Mono was designed with direction by Studio Lin and comissioned by Fragment.

Download a specimen here.

• Coding ligatures has been added based on JetBrains Mono and Fira Code.
• Character set has been extended to include up to GF Latin Plus.
• Small caps have been added.
• Cap height has been reduced to 96% for slightly better line-fitting.
• Drawing quality has been cleaned up and improved.
• Spacing has been matched to SF Mono.

Alternate Stylistic Set Characters

Coding Ligatures

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Building

Fonts are built automatically by GitHub Actions - take a look in the "Actions" tab for the latest build.

If you want to build fonts manually on your own computer:

• make build will produce font files.
• make test will run FontBakery's quality assurance tests.
• make proof will generate HTML proof files.

The proof files and QA tests are also available automatically via GitHub Actions - look at https://weiweihuanghuang.github.io/fragment-mono.

Changelog

28 June 2024. Version 1.20

• Added alternate i and l options in ss03–ss06 (for improved legibility, see specimen).
• Added alternate 1 with serif in ss07.
• Added circled numerals and letters.
• Added box drawing charaters.
• Added Powerline glyphs.

30 September 2022. Version 1.00

• Modified Nimbus Sans into monospaced.
• Corrected and improved drawings.
• Updated character set to GF Latin Plus.
• Added small caps.
• Added coding ligatures based on JetBrains Mono and Fira Code.
• Added some icons.
• Added more currency glyphs.

License

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at https://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Repository Layout

This font repository structure is inspired by Unified Font Repository v0.3, modified for the Google Fonts workflow.