Cousine

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What do I do with this?

Just want to use the font? Click "Get this font on Google Fonts" to download it or add it directly to a document, design tool (like Canva or Photoshop), or your computer's font list.

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Cousine is a monospace font designed to be metrically compatible with Courier New, meaning it matches its character widths while offering improved legibility and a cleaner overall appearance. It has a straightforward, utilitarian personality with letterforms that feel precise and structured without being cold or mechanical. The strokes are consistent and the spacing is even, giving it a reliable, no-nonsense quality that reads well at small sizes and holds up in dense text environments. It carries the familiar feel of typewriter or terminal typography but with modern refinements that make it more practical for contemporary use.

Cousine works well in developer tools, code editors, and technical documentation where monospace formatting is functionally necessary and readability at small sizes matters. It is also a solid choice for UI elements in applications that display data, logs, timestamps, or file paths, where the consistent character width helps with alignment and scanning. Beyond technical contexts, it can be used in editorial or print design when a designer wants a subtle retro typewriter aesthetic without sacrificing legibility, such as in zines, independent publications, or footnotes and captions that benefit from visual contrast with a proportional body font.

Best suited for: Code editors, technical documentation, data displays, and design projects seeking typewriter aesthetics with modern legibility in both digital and print contexts.

Design considerations: Cousine's monospace structure requires consistent character widths, making it ideal for alignment-dependent content like logs and file paths. The available weight and italic variants offer flexibility for emphasis and hierarchy within technical or editorial layouts.

Pairing guidance: Pair Cousine with Raleway for clean, contemporary contrast between code and UI labels, with Lora to combine technical precision with serif warmth in editorial layouts, or with Space Mono when a secondary monospace with distinct weight options strengthens visual hierarchy in data-heavy designs.

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Cousine at a glance

All 4 Cousine styles

Cousine character map

Which languages does Cousine support?

Cousine includes 8 character sets:

• Cyrillic: Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian and other Cyrillic-script languages
• Cyrillic Extended: additional Cyrillic letters used in languages such as Kazakh, Tatar and Bashkir
• Greek: modern Greek
• Greek Extended: polytonic (ancient) Greek
• Hebrew: Hebrew and Yiddish
• Latin: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and other Western European languages
• Latin Extended: Central and Eastern European languages such as Polish, Czech, Turkish, Romanian and Hungarian
• Vietnamese: Vietnamese, including its stacked tone marks

Can I use Cousine commercially?

Yes, it's free for personal and commercial use. Cousine is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. You can use it in logos, websites, apps, videos, printed products and merchandise without paying or asking permission. The one thing you can't do is sell the font file on its own.

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