What is the characteristic of a font called when each symbol has its own space and it cannot move the other symbols after changing. For example, if I have time in the format hour:minute:second, and the second changes to something that takes up less pixels, then everything to the left of it moves a little to the right. What would the assigned spaces be called?
Answer
I think you're either asking about a monospaced typeface – where each character has the same width – or the tabular lining opentype feature, which makes numbers the same width in typefaces where this feature available. This is useful for displaying alot of numbers in tables for instance, or when numbers need to align perfectly across multiple lines.
Some good examples of quality monospaced typeface families are the Decima Mono Pro or the PF DIN Mono.
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