The characteristic of a font family whose characters are all assigned the same horizontal spacing (also called fixed-pitch).

A font in which all characters have the same advance width. These are sometimes called typewriter fonts.

all characters, as on a manual typewriter, occupy the same space, so that i will align vertically with m m on a line below. compare with proportional font

A font in which all characters occupy the same amount of horizontal width regardless of the character.

Some common monospace fonts are: Courier

A font in which every character is the same width, like a typewriter. See Proportionally Spaced.

Monospace is a name of a monospaced Unicode font, developed by George Williams.