# SUSE Mono — Upstream Source Investigation

**Family**: SUSE Mono
**Designer**: René Bieder
**Date Added**: 2025-08-20
**Category**: Sans-Serif / Monospace
**Model**: Claude Opus 4.6

## Source Repository

The upstream source was located at:

- **Repository**: https://github.com/SUSE/suse-font
- **Commit**: `7159afb2555b06d3a5c2f90e4d324e59e69c277d`
- **Branch**: main
- **Archive**: https://github.com/SUSE/suse-font/releases/download/v2.001/suse-font-v2.001.zip

## Font Files

The family was published as two variable fonts covering the weight (`wght`) axis:

- `SUSEMono[wght].ttf` — upright
- `SUSEMono-Italic[wght].ttf` — italic

## Subsets

The family covered the following subsets: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese.

## Notes

SUSE Mono was designed by René Bieder and published to Google Fonts on 2025-08-20. It was the monospace companion to the SUSE family, sharing the same upstream repository, commit, and release archive (v2.001). The repository was maintained by SUSE, the open-source software company.

## Recent upstream/main activity (post-investigation)

- **2025-08-20** — Simon Cozens, commit [`a201be467`](https://github.com/google/fonts/commit/a201be467) ("SUSE Mono: Version 2.000 added"): initial onboarding via gftools-packager. Created `ofl/susemono/` with source block referencing `SUSE/suse-font@7159afb2555b06d3a5c2f90e4d324e59e69c277d` (shared with SUSE sibling family). archive_url points to the v2.000 release zip.
- **2025-09-10** — Emma Marichal, commits [`175b42844`](https://github.com/google/fonts/commit/175b42844), [`d4128f783`](https://github.com/google/fonts/commit/d4128f783) ("update + bump version", "update metadata.pb"): two same-day commits paralleling the SUSE family's v2.001 update (binary + metadata).