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A duospaced font (also called a duospace font) is a fixed-width font whose letters and characters occupy either of two integer multiples of a specified, fixed horizontal space. Traditionally, this means either a single or double character width, [ 1 ] although the term has also been applied to fonts using fixed character widths with another ...
A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. [1] [a] This contrasts with variable-width fonts, where the letters and spacings have different widths. Monospaced fonts are customary on typewriters and for typesetting ...
Eurostile Unicase is a variant of Eurostile Next with unicase letters. The family consists of one font (Regular) in extended width, without oblique fonts, but it has heavier weight than Eurostile Next Extended Bold. It supports ISO Adobe 2, Adobe CE, and Latin extended character sets. Extra OpenType features found in Eurostile Next are not ...
A uniwidth typeface, also known as an equal-width, duplexed, or multiplexed typeface, is a typeface where every variation has the same metrics (size of each letter). As a result, changing the variation used, such as using bold or italics, does not change the layout ( reflow ).
OCR-A is a font issued in 1966 [2] and first implemented in 1968. [3] A special font was needed in the early days of computer optical character recognition, when there was a need for a font that could be recognized not only by the computers of that day, but also by humans. [4] OCR-A uses simple, thick strokes to form recognizable characters. [5]
Open Sans is an open source humanist sans-serif typeface that was designed by Steve Matteson under commission from Google.It was released in 2011 and is based on his earlier design called Droid Sans, which was specifically created for Android mobile devices but with slight modifications to its width.
Comic Sans Pro is an updated version of Comic Sans created by Terrance Weinzierl from Monotype Imaging. While retaining the original designs of the core characters, it expands the typeface by adding new italic variants, in addition to swashes, small capitals, extra ornaments and symbols including speech bubbles, onomatopoeia and dingbats, as well as text figures and other stylistic alternatives.
Where available, most MM fonts support one or two (and occasionally three) of the following variables: Weight allows the character weight to be modified, typically from light, through regular, to extra bold. Width allows the character width to be extended or compressed. Although any font can be compressed or expanded by software, the results ...