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As someone who does type design, "duplexed" is the term I've seen used most often. It is usually used when talking about tabular numerals, which are monospaced
by sings 6y ago
As someone who does type design, "duplexed" is the term I've seen used most often. It is usually used when talking about tabular numerals, which are monospaced and duplexed (sharing the same advance width for glyphs across all weights).
Edit: Like most font terminology, I think it has historical roots predating digital type, and refers to the way styles or weights might sit above one another on the matrices.
- kps 6y ago‘Duplexed’ comes from Linotype machines that used a pair of fonts, normally roman and italic, on a set of matrices. For mechanical reasons the two versions of each character had to be the same width.
- arthur2e5 6y agoI just wrote a Wikipedia page for uniwidth typeface. Thanks for mentioning this origin! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniwidth_typeface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniwidth_typeface