Monospace
Also called Fixed-pitch, Typewriter
A face where every character occupies the same width, so an i and an m are set on the same advance and columns line up without a table.
Near it
Tabular figures
Display face
SidebearingWhat it is made of
| measured on this shelf | Drew Mono uses exactly ONE advance width, 820 units of 1000, for every printable ASCII character; the other 22 families use between 56 and 81 different ones | read off all 84 files with fontTools on the fixed shelf, 2026-09-29, over the 95 printable ASCII characters, space included. The 831 and the 54 to 80 this row carried were read on a build that was replaced before it shipped; the shipped Mono has never been 831. CORRECTED 2026-09-11 before that: this row once said "between 74 and 76", measured on three families and written as if it were the shelf |
| what follows from it | Drew Mono is also the only family on the shelf with no kerning table | the two facts are the same fact: equal advances are the whole point, and a kern pair would undo them |
Where it came from
A mechanical constraint of the typewriter that became a convention of code, and then a look.