Monospace Fonts

A monospaced font is a "fixed width" or "fixed pitch" font – such as the “Fixedsys.fon” (Win95) and 8514fix.fon (Win98-XP) fonts. Every character in the symbol set has the same width - and every "pitch" (spacing between characters) is the same. Most Monospaced fonts are the "system fonts", which are the "fon" files.  However, there are a few TrueType monospaced fonts, such as Courier.  

Monospaced fonts are used in MS-DOS, Windows' DOS boxes, Windows' Terminal mode, code editors and similar applications. It is useful for applications where columns of text should - or must - "line up" under a row of headers.   Here are a few monospaced fonts for Win98-XP:

8514fix.fon                   Fixedsys – from the IBM 8514
8514oem.fon                Terminal Font from the IBM 8514
8514sys.fon                  System font

These fonts can take up more width than proportional text - and are not good choices for large blocks of pure text.

See  http://www.emigre.com/EFfeature.php?di=80  (info on how to create decent looking monospace fonts !!)