Non -proportional font – Wikipedia

One non -proportional font , also Monospace script, partial script , Festival width , Constant , equidistante or thickness named, in contrast to a proportional font has a fixed character width (thickness). The English terms for non -proportional font ring Monospace , Fixed Font or Teletype .

Serified and serifless non -proportional fonts [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

As with the proportional fonts, there are commemorative types in both the print typography serified Execution, as well sans serif.

Bit stream Vera Mono, Monaco and Letter Gothic are also known to well-known monospace fonts.

For aesthetic, typographic and technical reasons, these writings are used in the printing system, in addition to the typewriter for the award of Latin.

Since the mechanical character detection is easier for non-proportional fonts, the fonts OCR-A and OCR-B, which are optimized for text recognition, also fall into this category.

Non -proportional fonts also find numerous uses on the computer, since some texts can be formatted with little effort and low storage requirement by spaces regardless of the word processing.

This property is useful in

The typographical-aesthetic demands on a constant letter are generally much lower, since the restless type of type never creates a really beautiful typeface. The achievable reading flow of the text image is therefore less than with proportional writings. The main interest in the use of constant writings lies in the clarity of the overall status and the distinguishing capacity of certain characters. In particular, pixel fonts from the early days of the EDP, which had to work with very few pixels per character, set signs that can be very similar in proportional fonts (e.g. the glyphs for 0 and O , first , I and l , A and 4 or B and 8 ), also much more different. For this purpose, mostly exaggerated serifs and a slash through the zero (whereby this representation is clearly of similar -looking letters such as Ø differentiates) or a point within the zero.

Examples [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Takimata: 134.50 €
+ Spirit: 3,00 €
+ Pain: 12.10 €
-------------------- = Sum:  149.60 €  

Table style table

+----------------------------
| Directory |
| + -----------------------------+ |
| |. | |
| | .. | |
| | Bin | |
| | Boot | |
| | Dev | |
| | etc | |
| | Home | |
| | Lib | |
| | Lib64 | |
| | Lost+Found | |
| +--------------------------------+|
| + -----------------------------+ |
| |/ | |
| + -----------------------------+ |
+----------------------------
|  |
+--------------------------------++ 

A “semi -graphic” file selection box, created with the program Dialog

On the computer (both in desktop publishing and in the screen display of the end user) fixed fonts Through special font -Resions to be instructed, for example in HTML by elements such as ( teletype , outdated), ^[first]

( preformatted , ‘Pre -formatted’) or ( (programming) code , Programming instructions), which are generally preset with a constant letter:

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Other changes in the typeface concern additional attributes attributed to these three HTML classes, such as that are made either in the HTML code or the CSS declarations of a website, or the settings of web browser-or other HTML-compatible text processing programs-or in the operating system wide settings .

Other award languages, such as the post -script optimized for the print system and the PDF, or TEX and LATEX for the formula set, but also all Rich Text Formats for storing text documents (such as opendocument format or the older Microsoft Word Doc formats) use such methods.

1. ↑ 15 Alignment, font styles, and horizontal rules – 15.2.1 Font style elements: the TT, I, B, BIG, SMALL, STRIKE, S, and U elements. In: HTML 4.01 Specification – W3C Recommendation. W3C, December 24, 1999, accessed on August 25, 2009 .