Paper Mono is a free and open source font family
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Paper Mono summary
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For the love of design.
METRICS / UNITS
- Width
- 606
- Cap height
- 710
- X-height
- 509
- Ascender
- 955
- Descender
- -245
- Underline
- -100
- Axis
- 100-800
Paper Mono v0.322
- Glyphs
- 800
- Characters
- 659
- Weights
- 8
- Feature sets
- 6
- Char sets
- 12
- Languages
- 100+
STYLISTIC SETS
- SS01
- coding ligatures
- SS02
- duospace glyphs
- SS03
- narrow space
- SS04
- small arrows
- CV01
- single-story a
- ZERO
- slashed zero
1Design
Timeless character
Flat terminals, gently squared curves, and a balanced x-height give Paper Mono the familiar character of a classic sans.
Regal Graphics
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Variable weights
You have 8 weights to work with, and the variable font lets you fine-tune the weight anywhere in between.
Beautiful numbers and symbols
We designed numbers and symbols with utmost care, so that they’re pleasing to look at and effortless to read.
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Box-drawing characters
Build tables, diagrams, and progress bars directly in text, using 128 box-drawing characters and 32 blocks.
Coding ligatures
A deliberately small set of ligatures that makes reading code enjoyable and doesn’t overwhelm you with unfamiliar shapes.
Duospace characters
Probably our favorite feature of the font, duospacing helps text flow naturally while keeping the monospace feel.
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Narrow spaces
Enable a little less space between words to help paragraphs flow or to let inline code sit naturally within a sentence.
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Small arrows
We’ve included an understated alternate arrow style that works alongside text without drawing too much attention.
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Single-story a
You can use the single-story “a” to give the text a warmer, more informal voice.
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Slashed zero
By default, the zero is unslashed to keep the numerals looking clean. You can add a slash when you need to tell 0 and O apart.
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2Glyphs
Use arrow keys to move between glyphs. Press Enter or Space to select. Home and End move to the ends of a row; Control plus Home or End moves to the ends of the grid. Press Tab to leave the grid.
3Play
4Set up
Set up
How to set up stylistic sets in your IDE
VS Code / Cursor
{ "editor.fontFamily": "Paper Mono", "editor.fontLigatures": "'ss01', 'ss04', 'zero'"}Reload the window after changing features.
Zed
{ "buffer_font_family": "Paper Mono", "buffer_font_features": { "ss01": true, "ss04": true, "zero": true }}JetBrains IDEs
(WebStorm, IntelliJ, PyCharm…)
Settings → Editor → Font → set Paper Mono. Enable ligatures if needed. In 2026.1+, use Typography Settings to turn on stylistic sets and character variants with live preview. Same steps in WebStorm and other JetBrains IDEs.
Sublime Text
{ "font_face": "Paper Mono", "font_options": ["ss01", "ss04", "zero"]}Vim / Neovim
font_family Paper Monofont_features PaperMono-Regular +ss01 +ss04 +zerofont = wezterm.font({ family = "Paper Mono", harfbuzz_features = { "ss01", "ss04", "zero" },})* npm and Google font coming soon