Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Pertaining to a typeface that has the same width for each character.
  • verb To type, typeset, or design text using a typeface that has the same width for each character.

Etymologies

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mono- + space

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Examples

  • Look and Feel Polish – a little bit of spit and shine has been applied to respect your chosen monospace font, use a scalable icon for docky and a few other little changes.

    jonobacon@home | Archive | February 2010

  • Look and Feel Polish – a little bit of spit and shine has been applied to respect your chosen monospace font, use a scalable icon for docky and a few other little changes.

    Acire 0.3 Released | jonobacon@home 2010

  • I've been using it all morning and I've already switched my monospace preferences to it system-wide.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • I've just switched to a monospace font called Droid Sans Mono, a free, Apache-licensed (see below) face.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • I do all my work -- novel writing, blogging, article - and short-story writing, email composition -- in a text editor (currently using Gedit, a free and open editor) using a monospace face.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • March 3, 2008 at 6:20 am monospace caption no can has cat. u not impact font.

    HI, I IZ CAPTION - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Change the size and colour to see if a font can meet your needs, and distinguish monospace fonts from others with a simple list indentation.

    Hawkeye Font Browser Helps You Pick the Perfect Typeface | Lifehacker Australia 2008

  • If you use a monospace font, it will (within reason).

    Proportional fonts for programming Jonathan Aquino 2006

  • Like most geeks, I'm more of a monospace kind of guy...

    The Best of The Digital Download 2006

  • I didn't note things like style-formatting issues (things that should be bold but aren't, things that should be monospace type but aren't) in the errata, because that information just goes back to the publisher for the second printing (if there is one) and doesn't affect anything the user might do.

    Archive 2004-10-01 2004

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