Monospaced font

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

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Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a computer font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. This contrasts with variable-width fonts, where the letters and spacings have different widths.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Monospaced font”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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