Mona Sans

Strong, versatile grotesque inspired by industrial-era type; GitHub's brand sans.

Font settings

Weight400

Width100

These settings in CSS

.mona-sans {
  font-family: "Mona Sans", sans-serif;
}

Waterfall

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Character set

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

0123456789

!@#$%&*()[]{}<>,.;:'"?/—–-+=

Paragraph

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. It shapes how words are read, felt and remembered — from wayfinding on a station platform to the small print of a contract. Good type disappears into reading; great type gives a voice to the text.

Install

Google Fonts

Embed in the <head> of your HTML

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Mona+Sans:wdth,wght@75..125,200..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Use Mona Sans in CSS

/* <weight>: use a value from 200 to 900 */

.mona-sans {
  font-family: "Mona Sans", sans-serif;
  font-weight: <weight>;
}

Fontsource

Install from npm

npm install @fontsource-variable/mona-sans

Import once in your app entry

// Supports weights 200-900
import "@fontsource-variable/mona-sans";

Use in CSS

body {
  font-family: "Mona Sans Variable", sans-serif;
}

Self-host

Google Fonts and Fontsource serve stripped builds — most OpenType features are removed. Self-hosting the original files is the only way to get the full feature set.

Download the font files from GitHub and serve them yourself:

Declare with @font-face

@font-face {
  font-family: "Mona Sans";
  src: url("/fonts/mona-sans.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-display: swap;
}

Details

Designer: Deni Anggara
Foundry: Degarism Studio (for GitHub)
Licence: OFL
Format: Variable (wght, wdth)
Variable axes: wght, wdth