The character set and design choices of Andalé Mono reveal its origin as a custom font for the Apple and IBM joint project Taligent.

It is still available for download as part of the Core fonts for the Web package on SourceForge and it is bundled with macOS.

The Andale Mono typeface family sold by Ascender Corporation includes bold and italics variants, in TrueType format.

Andalé Mono is also sold by Monotype, it does not include italics, and does not support Greek, Cyrillic, and most Latin Extended-A/B characters found in the Ascender version.

Andale Mono WT is a variant supporting all characters mapped by Unicode 3.0 code points.