Material Symbols Outlined

Name: Material Symbols Outlined
Author: Unknown

Material Symbols Outlined provides pixel-perfect precision with uniform character widths ideal for code and technical content.

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Monospace78% Accessible

Characters646

Glyphs775

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TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Material Symbols Outlined, including combinations with Montserrat, Arteks and Lato.

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Material Symbols Outlined with any font combination in real-time, optimized for monospace characteristics.

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Code Editor

index.tsx

TypeScript ReactUTF-8

1import { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
2
3interface UserProfile {
4  id: string;
5  name: string;
6  email: string;
7  avatar?: string;
8}
9
10export function UserCard({ user }: { user: UserProfile }) {
11  const [isLoading, setIsLoading] = useState(false);
12
13  return (
14    <div className="card">
15      <img src={user.avatar} alt={user.name} />
16      <h2>{user.name}</h2>
17      <p>{user.email}</p>
18    </div>
19  );
20}

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Code Editor

Syntax highlighted code block

Character Set

Material Symbols Outlined Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Text Table

Body Copy

Material Symbols Outlined Body Typography

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Material Symbols Outlined, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Material Symbols Outlined demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.
When setting Material Symbols Outlined for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.
Material Symbols Outlined small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

Element	Weight	Size	Line Height	Tracking	Preview
Body Text	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Material Symbols Outlined delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Material Symbols Outlined italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Material Symbols Outlined bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Material Symbols Outlined typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Material Symbols Outlined typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Material Symbols Outlined'; }

Quick Start

How to Embed Material Symbols Outlined in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Material+Symbols+Outlined:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Material+Symbols+Outlined:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Material Symbols Outlined';
  src: url('https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Material+Symbols+Outlined');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Material Symbols Outlined CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Material Symbols Outlined', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Material Symbols Outlined', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'material-symbols-outlined': ['Material Symbols Outlined', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-material-symbols-outlined">Your text here</p>

About

Inside Material Symbols Outlined

Unknown

Monospace

Open Source

Material Symbols Outlined offers strong presence and confident character, making it well-suited for data display. Its systematic spacing and uniform character width contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for terminal interfaces and data display, Material Symbols Outlined adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes The Material Symbols Outlined font supports a wide range of languages, including but not limited to ....

Material Symbols Outlined comes from the work of Unknown. Known for display typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Material Symbols Outlined's glyph proportions, stroke consistency, and typographic color.

As a Monospace typeface in the Vox-ATypI Mechanistic Lineal classification, Material Symbols Outlined features equal advance width for every glyph and exaggerated serifs or strokes to fill the fixed-pitch cell. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for ascii art and text-based interfaces.

Material Symbols Outlined is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated. Extended language support spanning Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin Extended ensures reliable rendering across global audiences.

Material Symbols Outlined

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Material Symbols Outlined

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Material Symbols Outlined's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

Classification

Monospace analysis. Typographic analysis places Material Symbols Outlined within the Mechanistic Lineal (fixed-pitch) tradition, characterized by Equal advance width for every glyph and Exaggerated serifs or strokes to fill the fixed-pitch cell. Monospaced type originated with typewriters in the 1870s. Key technical strength: precise columnar alignment without tabular figures.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 78). Material Symbols Outlined maintains legibility across a range of sizes and rendering environments.

Design Heritage

Designed by Unknown. Known for display typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Material Symbols Outlined's character shaping and weight distribution across a single focused weight.

Overview

About Material Symbols Outlined

Material Symbols Outlined embodies the Mechanistic Lineal typeface, grounded in the tradition where monospaced type originated with typewriters in the 1870s. Its distinctive equal advance width for every glyph and exaggerated serifs or strokes to fill the fixed-pitch cell make it well-suited for ascii art and text-based interfaces. TypeSmith indexes Material Symbols Outlined in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Material Symbols Outlined

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Material Symbols Outlined based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Good Accessibility

Using Material Symbols Outlined Accessibly

Material Symbols Outlined achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Good monospace fonts clearly distinguish similar glyphs (0/O, 1/l/I). Ligatures should be optional, as they can impair character-by-character reading for screen readers.

How Legible is Material Symbols Outlined?

Material Symbols Outlined draws legibility from its equal advance width for every glyph and exaggerated serifs or strokes to fill the fixed-pitch cell. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Material Symbols Outlined in Context: Readability

Optimized for character-level scanning rather than word-shape recognition. Readability depends on distinct glyph differentiation and consistent vertical alignment across all characters. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Visual Comfort with Material Symbols Outlined

Material Symbols Outlined provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

Material Symbols Outlined Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Material Symbols Outlined. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. When Material Symbols Outlined glyphs convey meaning, provide aria-label text for screen reader compatibility.

Getting the Most from Material Symbols Outlined

Pair with a humanist or geometric sans-serif for UI chrome around code blocks. Avoid combining two monospace faces on the same page. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Material Symbols Outlined. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Material Symbols Outlined in WOFF2 format with its extended character set to ensure consistent rendering across global audiences.

Get the Font

Get Material Symbols Outlined

Available on Google Fonts

4 weights available for download

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Available Weights

400

Regular

400

Regular Italic

700

Bold

700

Bold Italic

Weight Reference

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600

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800

900

Internationalization

Material Symbols Outlined Language Coverage

Extended Latin Coverage

Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch

Nordic

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic

Central European

Polish
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Slovak

Baltic

Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian

The Material Symbols Outlined font supports a wide range of languages, including but not limited to Latin-based languages, Cyrillic, Greek, and extended characters to accommodate various global scripts. This ensures broad international usability and inclusivity in digital and print media.

Legal

Font License Details

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1

Free for personal and commercial use

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What you can do

Personal projects
Commercial projects
Web embedding
App embedding
Modification
Redistribution

Restrictions

Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

Material Symbols Outlined is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes Material Symbols Outlined ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.

1import { useState, useEffect } from 'react'; 2 3interface UserProfile { 4 id: string; 5 name: string; 6 email: string; 7 avatar?: string; 8} 9 10export function UserCard({ user }: { user: UserProfile }) { 11 const [isLoading, setIsLoading] = useState(false); 12 13 return ( 14 <div className="card"> 15 <img src={user.avatar} alt={user.name} /> 16 <h2>{user.name}</h2> 17 <p>{user.email}</p> 18 </div> 19 ); 20}

1// tailwind.config.js 2module.exports = { 3 theme: { 4 extend: { 5 fontFamily: { 6 'material-symbols-outlined': ['Material Symbols Outlined', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-material-symbols-outlined">Your text here</p>

Material Symbols Outlined

Best Ways to Use Material Symbols Outlined

Best Font Pairings for Material Symbols Outlined

Test Material Symbols Outlined Font Pairings Live

In Context

Character Set

Type Scale

Material Symbols Outlined Body Typography

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Using Material Symbols Outlined Accessibly

How Legible is Material Symbols Outlined?

Material Symbols Outlined in Context: Readability

Visual Comfort with Material Symbols Outlined

Material Symbols Outlined Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Material Symbols Outlined

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Material Symbols Outlined

Best Ways to Use Material Symbols Outlined

Best Font Pairings for Material Symbols Outlined

Test Material Symbols Outlined Font Pairings Live

In Context

Character Set

Type Scale

Material Symbols Outlined Body Typography

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Using Material Symbols Outlined Accessibly

How Legible is Material Symbols Outlined?

Material Symbols Outlined in Context: Readability

Visual Comfort with Material Symbols Outlined

Material Symbols Outlined Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Material Symbols Outlined

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European