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Comparison between variable-width fonts and monospaced fonts. 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 ...
Samples of Monospaced typefaces Typeface name Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Anonymous Pro [1] Bitstream Vera Sans Mono [2] Cascadia Code: Century Schoolbook Monospace: Comic Mono [3] Computer Modern Mono/Typewriter [4] Consolas Class: Humanist : Courier [5] Cousine: DejaVu Sans Mono: Droid Sans Mono [6] Envy Code R [7] Everson Mono [8 ...
English: Figure illustrating the double-width nature of certain characters in a duospaced font versus the uniform character width in a monospaced font. The fonts used in this comparison are Migu 2M (duospaced) versus Consolas (monospaced).
OCR-B is a monospace font developed in 1968 by Adrian Frutiger for Monotype by following the European Computer Manufacturer's Association standard. Its function was to facilitate the optical character recognition operations by specific electronic devices, originally for financial and bank-oriented uses.
Monospace is a monospaced Unicode font, developed by George Williams. [1] It is based on the typeface Courier.This font contains 2860 glyphs.It includes characters in the following unicode ranges: Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, IPA Extensions, Spacing Modifier Letters, Combining Diacritical Marks, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Latin Extended Additional, Greek ...
Fixedsys is a family of raster monospaced fonts. The name means fixed system, because its glyphs are monospace or fixed-width (although bolded characters are wider than non-bolded, unlike other monospace fonts such as Courier). It is the oldest font in Microsoft Windows, and was the system font in Windows 1.0 and 2.0, where it was simply named ...
Vector has a base font size of 0.875em, and most browsers—except Firefox—correctly scale down all fonts, including the monospaced font, accordingly. So monospace is shown at 0.875 × 13px = 11px (which is perceived as "too small"). Compensating the font-size will render the font too big in Firefox. The solution is to assign any font besides ...
Courier is a monospaced slab serif typeface commissioned by IBM and designed by Howard "Bud" Kettler (1919–1999) in the mid-1950s. [1] [2] The Courier name and typeface concept are in the public domain. Courier has been adapted for use as a computer font, and versions of it are installed on most desktop computers.