Home › Monospace

Cousine

Among the 42 monospaced families, Cousine has the second-largest x-height relative to its capitals. It is one of the 60 families dated 2010, the earliest year in the repository’s records of when families were added.

Outlines drawn from the Cousine-Regular file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the monospaced families.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Cousine	Median of 44 monospaced families
Ascender (top of d)	725	730
Cap height (top of H)	659	699
x-height (top of x)	528	517
Descender (foot of p)	−208	−200
x-height ÷ cap height	0.80	0.70
Average lowercase width	600	600
Ink coverage, a–z	36.1%	36.0%

Where it sitsEvery monospace family is a dot

X-height across the 42 monospaced families with ascenders

378748

Just below: Fira Mono, Fira Code; just above: Geist Mono, Oxygen Mono; level with: Roboto Mono

Average lowercase width across the 44 monospaced families

4001,000

Just below: DM Mono, Fira Code; just above: Cutive Mono, Space Mono; level with: Oxygen Mono, Roboto Mono

Weights and styles

Static files in two weights (Regular and Bold), with a matching italic; 4 font files in all.

Scripts8 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 2,396 glyphs and 2,282 mapped Unicode characters; three OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: discretionary ligatures.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Fira Codeshorter x-height, same width Fira Monoshorter x-height, same width IBM Plex Monoshorter x-height, same width Lilexshorter x-height, same width Overpass Monoshorter x-height, wider Source Code Proshorter x-height, same width

Outside the monospace class

Fragment Monoshorter x-height, wider Fragment Mono SCshorter x-height, wider Kode Monotaller x-height, same width

Rank every family against Cousine

Same designer

Steve Matteson is also credited on Arimo, Tinos and Open Sans.