SUSE releases SUSE Mono, italics and more in a packed update to its type family

ByLinux Admin

These updates are a love letter to the open source communities and way for SUSE’s personality to shine through even brighter. View on Google Fonts (SUSE, SUSE Mono) and GitHub.

SUSE’s commitment to open source projects and providing enterprise-grade infrastructure sofware is no secret. This commitment reaches beyond products and into SUSE’s very identity. In February 2025, SUSE open sourced their mission and values, co-created with it’s entire employee-base: A project that won a 2025 Marketing & Communication award from Gartner.

One year ago, we launched our official open source font, SUSE. At the time of posting this, the Google Fonts API has served SUSE over 250 million times. SUSE is featured on over 3,100 websites (that we know of). Today, we’re announcing an exciting addition.

With this launch, you will see three major updates:

  1. Introducing an entirely new variant, SUSE Mono.
  2. Matching italics for both SUSE and SUSE Mono.
  3. Both fonts now support the latin characters for Vietnamese

SUSE Mono

SUSE Mono is a uniform width font built specifically for terminals, programming and data visualization, but can be used in various other settings. It was designed to maximize legibility while infusing SUSE’s blend of technical expertise and friendliness. Included in the full glyph set, you will find ligatures and powerline symbols common to modern consoles and programming IDE’s.

SUSE Italics and SUSE Mono Italics

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While most programs today can auto-italicize fonts, every designer knows the challenge to maintaining that font’s integrity. With SUSE Italics and SUSE Mono Italics, we’re adding a rich layer of expressiveness to our font toolkit and keeping our words 100% SUSE.

SUSE Italics break the traditional mold by bypassing normal grotesque italics for a more humanist version with looping serifs, descenders and ascenders. This font is unique in that it seamlessly mixes both hard edges with rounded curves. The result is a font family with higher contrast, improved legibility and a more authentic connection to SUSE’s design values. 

Support for Vietnamese

Lastly, we’ve expanded our latin glyph set to support the Vietnamese language for both SUSE and SUSE Mono.

We’re so proud of how the community has received our first iteration. This expanded contribution demonstrates our continued commitment to both open source and design excellence.

Download the new fonts from Google Fonts (SUSE, SUSE Mono) or view on GitHub.

Spencer Davis, Andy Fitzsimon and the SUSE Brand Team

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