A monospaced or fixed-width font is a font, where each letter occupies the same amount of space. These fonts were originally designed for typewriters and have quite a distinct look about them. Courier is undoubtedly one of the most well known monospaced fonts, particularly for web designers as it’s one of the web safe fonts. In the example below, you can see that each letter on the top line is the same width. The letter l takes up the same room horizontally as the letter o. In the case of Times New Roman, each letter has a different width.
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More Monospaced Type Goodness: Ten Free Fonts
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/01/09/more-monospaced-type-goodness-ten-free-fonts/
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January 8 2010, 5:07pm | Comments »
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