Editing Monospaced font (section)

== Use in art ==
Multiple art forms have developed within computers' and typewriters' monospaced typographic settings in which the ''n''th character of every line align vertically with each other. (Such a group of characters is sometimes called a column.) A proportional and monospaced font's reproduction of an element of ANSI art, [[Box-drawing characters|line drawing]], is illustrated below.
{| class=wikitable
|-
! Proportional font !! Monospaced font
|-
|align="left"|<pre style="border:none; font-family: sans-serif;">
┌─┐ ┌┬┐
│ │ ├┼┤
└─┘ └┴┘
</pre>
|align="left"|<pre style="border:none; font-family: monospace;">
┌─┐ ┌┬┐
│ │ ├┼┤
└─┘ └┴┘
</pre>
|}

The failure of a proportional font to reproduce the desired boxes above motivates monospaced fonts' use in the creation and viewing of [[ASCII art|ASCII]] and [[ANSI art|ANSI]] art. Some poetry composed monospaced on typewriters or computers also depends on the vertical alignment of character columns. [[E. E. Cummings]]' poetry is often set in monospaced type for this reason.{{Citation needed|date=December 2016}} Some classic video games (e.g. [[Rogue (video game)|Rogue]] and [[NetHack]]) and those imitating their style (e.g. [[Dwarf Fortress]]) use a monospaced grid of characters to render their state for the player. [[Quiz Show (video game)|''Quiz Show'']] (1976) is believed to be the first video game to use 8×8 monospaced "arcade font", which got widely adopted by computer games of the time.