Departure Mono

OFL monospaced pixel typeface with a lo-fi technical vibe, built for tabular data

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A monospaced pixel font by Helena Zhang and Tobias Fried, drawn with a lo-fi technical character modelled on airport departure boards and old terminal hardware. Its specimen makes the argument directly: a flight board rendered in box-drawing characters, which is where a pixel monospace is genuinely useful rather than only stylish - tabular data, terminal output, timetables, anything aligned in columns. Box-drawing and block glyphs are covered, which most display monospaces omit. The typeface is released under the SIL Open Font License; the separate website repository is MIT. Currently v1.500.

For an agent

Reach for this when a brief wants a terminal, retro-computing or departure-board character and a normal monospace reads too clean. It is a pixel font, so it is built for a specific size grid - set it large or at its intended pixel sizes, and do not expect it to hint gracefully at small body sizes. Box-drawing and block glyphs are present, which is what makes it work for tables and terminal output rather than only headlines. It is not on Google Fonts and not on npm: download the release zip from https://github.com/rektdeckard/departure-mono/releases/latest and self-host. Note the two licences - the font is SIL OFL, the website repository is MIT, so do not cite the repo's MIT badge as the font's licence.

Why it is here. Most pixel and retro typefaces are display-only; this one carries the box-drawing and block glyphs that make a monospace usable for real tabular and terminal work.

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Facts

License: SIL Open Font License
Pricing: Free, Open source
Framework: Not applicable
Styling: Not applicable
Distribution: Direct download / asset pack, GitHub repository
Platform: Platform agnostic
Content type: Fonts / typefaces
Agent readiness: Readable open source
Accessibility: Not applicable
Maturity: Stable
Pricing detail: Free under the SIL OFL, including commercial use and embedding. The author takes donations via Buy Me a Coffee.
GitHub stars: 2,926

Notable for

SIL OFL, free for commercial use
monospaced pixel with box-drawing and block glyphs
specimen is a working departure board
v1.500, 2,926 stars
by Helena Zhang and Tobias Fried
self-host only - not on Google Fonts or npm

Provenance

Verified 2026-08-18. HTTP 200. https://departuremono.com/ 200, meta description states SIL OFL and the page links openfontlicense.org; GitHub API for rektdeckard/departure-mono reports 2,926 stars and an MIT LICENSE covering the Vite website source; latest release v1.500 dated 2025-05-25 with asset DepartureMono-1.500.zip; fonts.google.com specimen returns 404 and no npm package exists

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