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Intel One Mono Typeface

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Introducing Intel One Mono, an expressive monospaced font family that’s built with clarity, legibility, and the needs of developers in mind.

It’s easier to read, and available for free, with an open-source font license.

Identifying the typographically underserved low-vision developer audience, Frere-Jones Type designed the Intel One Mono typeface in partnership with the Intel Brand Team and VMLY&R, for maximum legibility to address developers' fatigue and eyestrain and reduce coding errors. A panel of low-vision and legally blind developers provided feedback at each stage of design.

Intel One Mono also covers a wide range of over 200 languages using the Latin script. The Intel One Mono fonts are provided in four weights — Light, Regular, Medium, and Bold — with matching italics, and we are happy to share both an official release of fonts ready to use as well as editable sources.    

 Using the Fonts

To install the fonts, please use the provided builds under Releases. Please refer to your software’s documentation for how to activate and use these fonts.

 Activating the Fonts in Code Editors
- VSCode - In Settings, search Font Family, then specify Intel One Mono
- Sublime Text - Go to Sublime Text - Preferences - Settings and set font_face to Intel One Mono
- IntelliJ Platform - Go to File - Settings - Editor - Font and set Font to Intel One Mono

 Font Formats
- We recommend the .otf or .ttf format for desktop use.
- The .ttf files are also well suited for mobile apps.
- The .woff and .woff2 fonts are optimized for web use.

 Screen Rendering and Size Ranges
We recommend using these fonts at 7 points and larger in print, 9 pixels and larger on screen. The .ttf, .woff and .woff2 fonts provided in the official release have been manually optimized for screen display, improving clarity and legibility, especially on Windows platforms.

 Available OpenType Features
Outside of the default characters, there are a few extra features that are accessible in some applications, as well as via CSS:
- Programming Ligatures: To use programming ligatures, activate the ss01 feature (Stylistic Set 1). Additional refinements are available via ss02 and ss03: Stylistic Set 2 switches the = combinations to arrow forms (math contractions being the default otherwise), and Stylistic Set 3 additionally activates a “www” ligature.
- Alternate three: New in release 1.5. Alternate form for three added. The round top three, numerator, denomenator, superior and inferior can be activated with stylistic Set 4. 
- Raised Colon: The colon is automatically raised in operators, to align with math symbols. For non-programming contexts, the raised colon can be applied contextually between numbers or activated generally. The contextual option is available via ss11 (Stylistic Set 11); for the global switch use ss12 (Stylistic Set 12) or salt (Stylistic Alternates).
- Language Support: ccmp and locl features ensure correct displ