Store Norske Jazz Mono - Monospaced companion to Jazz, engineered for clarity and consistency in technical and editorial contexts.

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Store Norske Jazz Mono is the monospaced companion to Store Norske Jazz, carrying the same contrasted structure, clarity, and warm restraint into a typewriter-inspired form. Where Jazz balances rational construction with a softer and more approachable tone, Jazz Mono places that voice inside a fixed-width rhythm, giving the typeface a more mechanical texture without losing its human presence.

The monospaced form brings interval, alignment, and repetition more clearly into view. Each character occupies the same width, but the drawing remains close to the proportions and atmosphere of Jazz: crisp, controlled, and calm, with enough warmth to avoid the harder tone often associated with technical lettering. The result is a text image that feels precise and orderly, but not anonymous.

Jazz Mono has a natural place in editorial systems, interfaces, cultural projects, and structured communication where clarity and tone need to work together. It can also carry more demanding fields such as medicine, finance, and technology, where information has to remain steady, legible, and credible. As a companion to Jazz, it extends the same way of speaking into a more fixed and deliberate form.

Store Norske Jazz Mono is designed by Arve Båtevik.

Technical information

For full technical specifications and character overview, please see the technical section at the end of the specimen PDF.

Language support

Jazz Mono supports a broad Latin character set covering Western European, Central European, South European, North European, Baltic, Turkish, Celtic, South-Eastern European, Nordic and Sami language use.

Supported languages include Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Bemba, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lule Sami, Luxembourgeois, Maltese, Northern Sami, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Scottish, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Southern Sami, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish and Welsh.

Character sets and encodings

Jazz Mono supports Adobe Latin 1, Adobe Latin 2, Macintosh Roman, Macintosh Central European, Macintosh Croatian, Macintosh Icelandic, Macintosh Romanian, Macintosh Turkish, ISO/IEC 8859-1, 8859-2, 8859-3, 8859-4, 8859-9, 8859-10, 8859-13, 8859-14, 8859-15, 8859-16, Windows-1250, Windows-1252, Windows-1254 and Windows-1257.

OpenType features

Jazz Mono includes OpenType features for access to alternates, glyph composition and decomposition, localised forms, subscripts, scientific inferiors, superscripts, numerators, denominators, fractions, ordinals, proportional figures, tabular figures, case-sensitive forms, discretionary ligatures and standard ligatures.

The font software has four stylistic sets: ss01 for alternate lowercase a forms, ss02 for alternate i/l forms, ss03 for alternate percent and per mille forms and ss04 for alternate zero forms.

Feature tags: aalt, ccmp, locl, subs, sinf, sups, numr, dnom, frac, ordn, pnum, tnum, case, dlig, liga, ss01, ss02, ss03, ss04.