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Roboto Mono is a monospaced addition to the
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`Roboto <https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto>`__ type family.
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Like the other members of the Roboto family, the fonts are optimized for
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readability on screens across a wide variety of devices and reading
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environments. While the monospaced version is related to its variable
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width cousin, it doesn’t hesitate to change forms to better fit the
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constraints of a monospaced environment. For example, narrow glyphs like
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‘I’, ‘l’ and ‘i’ have added serifs for more even texture while wider
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glyphs are adjusted for weight. Curved caps like ‘C’ and ‘O’ take on the
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straighter sides from Roboto Condensed.
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Special consideration is given to glyphs important for reading and
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writing software source code. Letters with similar shapes are easy to
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tell apart. Digit ‘1’, lowercase ‘l’ and capital ‘I’ are easily
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differentiated as are zero and the letter ‘O’. Punctuation important for
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code has also been considered. For example, the curly braces ‘{ }’ have
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exaggerated points to clearly differentiate them from parenthesis ‘( )’
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and braces ‘[ ]’. Periods and commas are also exaggerated to identify
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them more quickly. The scale and weight of symbols commonly used as
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operators have also been optimized.
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:Font creator: Google
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:Source: https://github.com/google/fonts/tree/master/apache/robotomono
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:Patched by: `Evan McClain <https://github.com/aeroevan>`_
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