Base Monospace

Emigre · Zuzana Licko · 1997

monomonospaced sansitalicmono

Zuzana Licko's 1997 fixed-width family for Emigre, offered in Narrow and Wide proportions across three weights with matching italics.

About

Part of Licko's broader Base series, Base Monospace applies the same rational design sensibility to a fixed-pitch grid. Two width variants, Narrow and Wide, each carry Thin, Regular and Bold weights alongside their italics, giving the family twelve styles in total. The result is a monospaced family with more typographic flexibility than most of its contemporaries.

Classification

A fixed-width typeface with two width variants (Narrow and Wide), designed as a monospaced companion within the Base family. Its even spacing and sans-serif structure place it firmly in the monospaced category.

Weights

ThinRegularBold

Optical sizes and widths

NarrowWide

Family

Base Monospace NarrowBase Monospace Wide

Languages

Latin