Cosmica Mono

About Cosmica Mono

Cosmica Mono is the first retail monotype release from L&W. (A monospace font is one where every character has the same body width, like a vintage typewriter where each keystroke advances the carriage an equal unit.) The type was not built to a specific pitch – 'pitch' is the number of letters to an inch when set at 12 pt – but was instead a process of trial-and-error which determined the spacing of 780 em units, and revised vertical proportions. Cosmica Mono is both larger and smaller than Cosmica in order to function in the monospace environment: the x-height and descender remain the same in both fonts, but the capitals are 8% shorter, and the ascenders are 5% shorter. Because the design is based on Cosmica and is not a re-creation of a typewriter typeface, it has fewer trademarks of a traditional monospace font; the only notably non-consonant letters are I i j & l. The fonts include alternate schoolbook forms of a & y, an eyeglass version of g, and half-width versions of space & basic punctuation for a more polished option.

Originally released 2023.09

Supported Languages

Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Leonese, Lithuanian, Lower Sorbian, Luxembourgish, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romanian, Sami, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Upper Sorbian, Walloon, Welsh