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Geist Mono

Among the 44 monospaced families, Geist Mono has the second-largest number of stylistic sets and the third-shallowest descenders. It is one of 91 families offering all nine weights from Thin to Black, each with an italic.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Geist Mono	Median of 44 monospaced families
Ascender (top of d)	710	730
Cap height (top of H)	710	699
x-height (top of x)	530	517
Descender (foot of p)	−150	−200
x-height ÷ cap height	0.75	0.70
Average lowercase width	600	600
Ink coverage, a–z	37.4%	36.0%

Where it sitsEvery monospace family is a dot

X-height across the 42 monospaced families with ascenders

378748

Just below: Cousine, Roboto Mono; just above: Oxygen Mono, Hibur Mono

Average lowercase width across the 44 monospaced families

4001,000

Just below: Courier Prime, Sometype Mono; just above: Cousine, Oxygen Mono; level with: DM Mono, Fira Code, Fira Mono

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 100 to 900.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Weight	wght	100 to 900	545 families

Scripts6 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 1,159 glyphs and 889 mapped Unicode characters; 23 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals and case-sensitive forms.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

JetBrains Monotaller x-height, same width IBM Plex Monoshorter x-height, same width Lilexshorter x-height, same width PT Monoshorter x-height, same width Google Sans Codeshorter x-height, same width Share Tech Monoshorter x-height, narrower

Outside the monospace class

Numanstaller x-height, narrower Yuji Maitaller x-height, wider Mozilla Texttaller x-height, narrower

Rank every family against Geist Mono

Same designer

Andrés Briganti is also credited on Geist and Geist Pixel. Mateo Zaragoza is also credited on Geist. Guillermo Rauch is also credited on Geist and Geist Pixel. Evil Rabbit is also credited on Geist and Geist Pixel. José Rago is also credited on Geist. Facundo Santana is also credited on Geist.