Are there any fixed-width, sans-serif fonts?

[Kevin Smith]

I've been looking for a nice sans-serif, fixed-width font to replace courier,
but I havne't found anything. Does anyone know of a font like this?

Kevin Smith
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[Peter Wyzlic]

>> Kevin Smith wrote 31 Jul 1998 22:39:02 EDT:

KS> I've been looking for a nice sans-serif, fixed-width font to
KS> replace courier, but I havne't found anything. Does anyone know
KS> of a font like this?

If cmtt is nothing for you, try for example Letter Gothic (but you
have to get it from your font vendor, there is afaik no free Letter
Gothic; correct if I am wrong).

\bye
Peter

[Louis Vosloo]

Kevin Smith wrote:
>
> I've been looking for a nice sans-serif, fixed-width font to replace courier,
> but I havne't found anything. Does anyone know of a font like this?

Lucida Sans Typewriter is one such.
Used a lot for showing program code.
See e.g. `Programming Display PostScript for X Windows'
by Adobe, published by Addison Wesley.
If you need space for more code use Lucida Sans Typewriter Narrow.
There is also Lucida Sans Linedraw which has the same style,
but includes all the `DOS codepage' `IBM OEM' linedraw characters.
In any case, make sure to get the BC/AW modified versions, which
have a slashed zero and an unconnected underscore.

Available from Y&Y in ATM compatible Type 1 formats suitable for
IBM PC Windows, Macintosh and Unix/NeXT.

There is also Lucida Console, designed for easy readability on
screen. This comes in TrueType form with some versions of
Windows, and is also available in Type 1 format from Y&Y.

Another option is monotype.com available on the Microsoft web site.
This is in TrueType format, obviously.
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[Dave Nalle]

In article <35C30337...@YandY.com>, Louis Vosloo <sup...@YandY.com>
wrote:

> Kevin Smith wrote:
> >
> > I've been looking for a nice sans-serif, fixed-width font to replace
courier,
> > but I havne't found anything. Does anyone know of a font like this?

Try Onuava. You can get it at:

http://www.ragnarokpress.com/scriptorium/webfonts.html

It's free.

dave

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[T. Grzybowski]

Kevin:

We have been using a font named Monospace821BT for a few years. After
a long search for a fixed-width (monospace) sans-serif font we found
we like this the best. It can be obtained from the FontHaus,
Westport, Conn.

thomas.g...@pharma.com
Senior Information Specialist
Purdue Pharma

Louis Vosloo <sup...@YandY.com> wrote:

>Kevin Smith wrote:
>>
>> I've been looking for a nice sans-serif, fixed-width font to replace courier,
>> but I havne't found anything. Does anyone know of a font like this?

>Lucida Sans Typewriter is one such.

[andrew...@gmail.com]

monaco

[bkleine]

Am 12.01.2016 um 18:06 schrieb andrew...@gmail.com:
>
> monaco
>
http://www.lowing.org/fonts/

[alig...@gmail.com]

There are Serifs in Monaco, on the lower case L's and I's and the upper case "I" so strictly speaking, it is not a sans-serif font.

[Bob Tennent]

FiraMono
DejaVuSansMono
IBMPlexMono
RobotoMono
NotoMono


Bob T.

[alig...@gmail.com]

Are there any fixed width sans serif in Microsoft Word's automatic options (I'm on Mac Offfice 2008, but some of the fonts should be similar across versions)?

That would be most useful, as I often share simple sheet music documents with other musicians in my group on different platforms.

Fixed width fonts help make sure chords stay in the right locations above the words below them, but Courier isn't the cleanest reading font.

Most musicians seem to prefer sans-serif fonts but that affects the uniformity of the documents sent across platforms and with font size change changes. PDFs though are often harder to edit depending on how they're produced.

Thanks!

[alig...@gmail.com]

And are there any sans serif fixed width fonts in Apple's Pages that convert to a sans serif fixed width fonts when exported as a Microsoft Word document. My band leader is on a Mac and sometimes forgets and sends us Pages documents as well.

Welcome to the modern world!

[roberteb...@gmail.com]

Are there any proportional fonts that have monospaced capital letters?

(Most popular proportional fonts used monospaced digits. So it doesn't
seem like much of a stretch to also want the capital letters to be
monospaced.)

Alternately, is there an easy way to create a new font starting from
Calibri (Body) and replacing each capital letter with the corresponding
capital letter in Consolas?

HELP!

[Peter Flynn]

On 17/07/2020 22:24, roberteb...@gmail.com wrote:
> Are there any proportional fonts that have monospaced capital letters?

Not that I am aware of.

> (Most popular proportional fonts used monospaced digits. So it
> doesn't seem like much of a stretch to also want the capital letters
> to be monospaced.)

I'm afraid it seems like rather a long stretch to me. Digits can be
uniform width so they align in tables, but I can't see a use for
monospaced capitals.

> Alternately, is there an easy way to create a new font starting from
> Calibri (Body) and replacing each capital letter with the
> corresponding capital letter in Consolas?

Open both TTF/OTF files in fontforge and copy and paste. But I wouldn't
expect the results to be either readable or usable. You could probably
also do the same with a mapping file, thereby avoiding doing actual
bodily violence to the font files.

Can you perhaps explain what use they would be?

You could also try doing the same with any typeface which comes with a
matching monospace and roman. But you'd need to do surgery on the italic
and bold and bold-italic as well, and maybe small-caps too.

Peter