Tabular figures
Numerals given identical widths so that columns of numbers align vertically without a table doing the work.
Near it
What it is made of
| measured on this shelf | the ten digits of Drew Grotesk use NINE different advance widths, from 371 units for the 1 to 700 for the 2, and every one of the 22 non-monospaced families uses nine or ten: figures on this shelf are proportional, and a column of them will not line up | read off all 84 files with fontTools on the fixed shelf, 2026-09-28. The 369 and 708 this row once carried were read on a build that was replaced before it shipped; the 394 and 705, and Drew Round's eight, belonged to the shelf before its refit of 2026-09-28 |
| and the feature that would fix it is not there | font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums is inert on every face this house ships | there is no GSUB table in ANY of the 84 files, so the OpenType feature that would carry this cannot be reached at all: it is absent, not merely unused |
| the one exception, and it is not a feature | Drew Mono, whose digits are all 820 units because every glyph in it is | tabular by construction rather than by a table, which is why the house sets its figures in it |
Lining figures
Old-style figures
Monospace