Duospaced font
A duospaced font is a font whose letters and characters either occupy single or double amount of a specified horizontal space.[1] This contrasts with variable-width fonts, where the letters and spacings have more than two different widths. And, unlike monospaced fonts, this means the glyphs can take up to two character widths instead of a single character width. Glyphs, such as large ideographs, that cannot reasonably fit into a single character width can thus be accommodated into extra horizontal space that would otherwise be unavailable in a strictly monospaced font.
Although typically associated with Asian character sets and halfwidth and fullwidth forms, the general notion of duospaced fonts is not limited to such characters. Examples of duospaced characters not strictly associated with Asian halfwidth and fullwidth forms include various technical and pictographic symbols as seen in Migu 2M, and the Unicode character Roman Numeral One Hundred Thousand (U+2188) and various other symbols in GNU Unifont.
Example fonts
- Andale Duospace WT[2]
- GNU Unifont
- Migu 1M
- Migu 2M
- Monotype Sans Duospace WT[3]
- Thorndale Duospace WT[3]
- WT SansDuo[4]
- WT SerifDuo[4]
See also
References
- ^ "Font spacing characteristics". IBM Knowledge Center. IBM Corporation. 1990. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
- ^ "Predefined Fonts". Oracle. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
- ^ a b "TrueType and OpenType fonts". IBM Knowledge Center. IBM Corporation. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
- ^ a b "Summary tables for WorldType fonts". IBM Knowledge Center. IBM Corporation. Retrieved 2017-09-17.