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Roboto Mono

Roboto Mono carries true small capitals, a feature present in 179 of the 1,899 families. It offers seven weights, each with an italic, which is more styles than 86% of the monospaced families have. It has a taller x-height than 71% of the 42 monospaced families with ascenders.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Roboto Mono	Median of 44 monospaced families
Ascender (top of d)	750	730
Cap height (top of H)	711	699
x-height (top of x)	528	517
Descender (foot of p)	−203	−200
x-height ÷ cap height	0.74	0.70
Average lowercase width	600	600
Ink coverage, a–z	37.3%	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: Cousine

Average lowercase width across the 44 monospaced families

4001,000

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

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 100 to 700.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Weight	wght	100 to 700	545 families

Scripts6 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 1,006 glyphs and 876 mapped Unicode characters; one OpenType feature tag.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

IBM Plex Monoshorter x-height, same width Lilexshorter x-height, same width Google Sans Codeshorter x-height, same width Oxygen Monotaller x-height, same width Fira Monoshorter x-height, same width Fira Codeshorter x-height, same width

Outside the monospace class

Kalniashorter x-height, narrower Kode Monotaller x-height, same width Montserrat Underlineshorter x-height, narrower

Rank every family against Roboto Mono

Same designer

Christian Robertson is also credited on Roboto, Roboto Slab and Roboto Condensed.