Corbit Mono

A futuristic, stroke-based open-source monospace font crafted for developers.

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Features

• Stroke-based geometry — every glyph built from clean SVG path data
• True monospace — fixed 600-unit advance width for perfect code alignment
• 99 glyphs — uppercase, lowercase, numbers, symbols, and programming ligatures
• Fully reproducible — build pipeline written entirely in Node.js using opentype.js
• Open Source — SIL Open Font License 1.1

Preview

Open index.html in your browser for the interactive specimen page with a live text editor and full character map.

Installation

Download dist/CorbitMono.ttf and install it as a system font, or reference it directly from your CSS:

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Corbit Mono';
  src: url('CorbitMono.ttf') format('truetype');
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
}

body {
  font-family: 'Corbit Mono', monospace;
}

Building from Source

Requirements: Node.js 16+

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Generate SVG preview glyphs → glyphs/
npm run generate

# Build the TTF font → dist/CorbitMono.ttf
npm run build

# Both steps in sequence
npm run all

What the build does

1. scripts/generate-glyphs.js — reads path definitions and writes individual SVG files into glyphs/uppercase/, glyphs/lowercase/, glyphs/numbers/, glyphs/symbols/, and glyphs/ligatures/.
2. scripts/build-font.js — converts each stroke path to filled outline contours using a custom strokeToOutline() function and assembles a TTF binary via opentype.js.

Font Design

Corbit Mono uses a consistent 1000×1000 SVG coordinate space:

• Baseline at y = 800
• Cap height at y = 150
• Descenders extend to y = 980
• All strokes have a width of 50 units (±25 from center)

The stroke-to-outline algorithm approximates round line caps with cubic Bézier curves (κ ≈ 0.5523) and converts quadratic Bézier segments into polyline approximations at 12 steps for accuracy.

License

Corbit Mono is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Copyright 2024 Corbit Technologies