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Intel revives One Mono font after brief retirement during open-source purge
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Intel has reversed its decision to shelve its open-source font project designed specifically with developers in mind.
Key facts
- Unfortunately, the font has not witnessed any significant updates since 2024, with activity during 2025 reportedly limited to Readme updates
- Introduced back in 2023, One Mono is a monospace font where each character occupies the same horizontal width
- Intel carried out the development in collaboration with type design studio Frere-Jones Type and marketing agency VMLY&R
- Additionally, the font supports more than 200 languages using the Latin script and is available in Light, Regular, Medium, and Bold weights, along with matching italics
Summary
Introduced back in 2023, One Mono is a monospace font where each character occupies the same horizontal width. “Identifying the typographically underserved low-vision developer audience, we designed the Intel One Mono typeface for maximum legibility to address developers' fatigue and eyestrain and reduce coding errors,” said Intel in its introduction. The font was designed with several features to improve legibility, including distinctions between similar-looking letters and coding characters. As mentioned, One Mono is available under an open-source license; thus, developers are free to use and modify it. Unfortunately, the font has not witnessed any significant updates since 2024, with activity during 2025 reportedly limited to Readme updates.