Space Mono Nerd Font
Colophon Foundry’s quirky monospace, for display use more than long code sessions.
What it does
Space Mono is a Google Fonts release by Colophon Foundry with deliberately unusual letterforms — angular terminals, a distinctive g and &, retro-futurist proportions. This is the Nerd Font patched build.
It is a display face that happens to be monospaced. Good for headings, terminal recordings and anything that wants character; harder to read for eight hours than JetBrains Mono.
Ligatures and OpenType features
There are none to configure. Space Mono ships no programming ligatures, no stylistic sets and no character variants, so calt, ssXX and zero have nothing to switch — the patched build adds the Nerd Font icon range and changes nothing else.
Four styles only: regular, italic, bold, bold italic.
Notes
Licensed under the SIL Open Font License, so it is usable on the web as well as locally.
Alternative to
| Alternative | Type | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|
| Martian Mono | Open source | Another wide, distinctive display monospace |
| Departure Mono | Open source | Pixel-styled, for the same retro purpose |
| Monaspace | Open source | GitHub’s superfamily, five voices designed to mix |
Install
brew install --cask font-space-mono-nerd-font