Typeface Design for Diurnal Mono

Calligraphic forms within a fixed-width grid

Diurnal Mono is a humanist monospaced typeface designed by Nikola Djurek, released by Typotheque in 2022. It applies calligraphic forms to the fixed-width format, departing from the reduced geometric shapes that characterise monospaced fonts historically associated with coding, accounting, and tabular alignment. According to Typotheque, the design brings regularity and warmth to vertically aligned text while retaining unapologetically calligraphic letterforms.

Set in Diurnal Mono