Monospace
Also called: monospaced font, mono, fixed-width font, code font.
A font where every letter takes the same width, so an i is as wide as an M, like on an old typewriter. It is used for code and for a technical, precise look.
In a monospace font every letter is the same width, so an i takes as much room as an M.
Mono
Say it in a prompt
Use a monospace font (Geist Mono or JetBrains Mono, falling back to ui-monospace) for code, keyboard shortcuts and small uppercase labels, at 13px with 0.02em letter-spacing. Seen on
You might describe it as
- typewriter style letters
- code font where every letter is the same size
- techy font like a terminal
Not to be confused with
- Tabular numbers
In a monospace font every character is the same width; tabular numbers make only the digits the same width, in a normal font.