Oxygen Mono

Name: Oxygen Mono
Author: Vernon Adams

Oxygen Mono provides pixel-perfect precision with uniform character widths ideal for code and technical content.

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Monospaceby Vernon Adams94% Accessible

Characters646

Glyphs775

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Oxygen Mono

Best Font Pairings for Oxygen Mono

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Oxygen Mono, including combinations with Belanosima, Altavoz and Ks Bistra.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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Test Oxygen Mono Font Pairings Live

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

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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In Context

Oxygen Mono Specimen Gallery

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

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Character Set

Oxygen Mono 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

Oxygen Mono for Paragraphs

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

Oxygen Mono demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.
When setting Oxygen Mono 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.
Oxygen Mono 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	Oxygen Mono delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Oxygen Mono italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Oxygen Mono bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Oxygen Mono typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Oxygen Mono typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Oxygen Mono'; }

Quick Start

Integrating Oxygen Mono

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Oxygen Mono

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Oxygen Mono', 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        'oxygen-mono': ['Oxygen Mono', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-oxygen-mono">Your text here</p>

About

The Story of Oxygen Mono

Vernon Adams

Monospace

Open Source

Oxygen Mono delivers mechanical precision and confident character, making it well-suited for technical documentation. Its technical precision and systematic spacing contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for programming environments and terminal interfaces, Oxygen Mono adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes The Oxygen Mono font supports a wide range of languages, including those that use Latin, Greek, and ....

Oxygen Mono was created by Vernon Adams. Known for open-source display and text typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Oxygen Mono's glyph proportions, stroke consistency, and typographic color.

As a Monospace typeface in the Vox-ATypI Mechanistic Lineal classification, Oxygen Mono 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 technical documentation with inline code.

Oxygen Mono 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.

Oxygen Mono

Oxygen Mono

Best Ways to Use Oxygen Mono

Best Font Pairings for Oxygen Mono

Test Oxygen Mono Font Pairings Live

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Character Set

Type Scale

Oxygen Mono for Paragraphs

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

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Classification

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Internationalization

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Nordic

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