Editing Typeface (section)

===Monospaced typefaces===
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[[File:Courier simple sample.png|thumb|Courier, a monospaced slab serif typeface. All the letters occupy spaces the same width.]]

Monospaced fonts are typefaces in which every glyph is the same width (as opposed to variable-width fonts, where the ''w'' and ''m'' are wider than most letters, and the ''i'' is narrower). The first monospaced typefaces were designed for typewriters, which could only move the same distance forward with each letter typed. Their use continued with early computers, which could only display a single font. Although modern computers can display any desired typeface, monospaced fonts are still important for [[computer programming]], terminal emulation, and for laying out tabulated data in [[plain text]] documents; they may also be particularly legible at small sizes due to all characters being quite wide.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Spolsky|first1=Joel|title=User Interface Design For Programmers |url=http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/fog0000000249.html |website=Joel On Software |date=24 October 2001|access-date=15 July 2015}}</ref> [[List of typefaces#Monospaced|Examples of monospaced typefaces]] are [[Courier (typeface)|Courier]], [[Prestige Elite]], [[Fixedsys]], and [[Monaco (typeface)|Monaco]]. Most monospaced fonts are sans-serif or slab-serif as these designs are easiest to read printed small or display on low-resolution screens, though many exceptions exist.