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Typeface Design for Fedra Mono

A monospaced companion born from an annual report brief

Fedra Mono is a fixed-width typeface designed by Peter Biľak, originally developed for an annual report that required a monospaced companion to Fedra Sans. All characters share a width of 60% of the em square, supporting reliable vertical alignment in tabular and code settings. The foundry notes that the family retains even typographic colour on screen despite the fixed-pitch constraint. Script coverage extends to Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian, and Georgian.

Set in Fedra Mono

Insights

The design originated as a fixed-width counterpart to Fedra Sans, developed for an annual report requiring tabular setting.
Characters are set at 10-pitch (ten characters per inch at 10pt), with every glyph occupying exactly 60% of the em square regardless of weight.
Disambiguation of visually similar characters (I, l, 1; O, 0; brackets, braces, parentheses) was an explicit design priority.
An OpenType feature substitutes digraph letter pairs with single glyphs, covering most European-language digraphs alongside mathematical and computer symbol sets.