Nostalgia fans rejoice – a new monospaced display font has made its debut, and this time every glyph shares the same baseline height with no descenders to interfere with the character flow.

Microsoft kicks Calibri to the curb for Aptos as default font

The makers of the font, named Retrocide and available in TrueType, OpenType, and WOFF2 formats, reckon the monospaced font is great for code editors and terminals, with "perfect alignment."

There has long been a demand for monospaced fonts, where each character occupies the same width, allowing for consistent spacing. Microsoft Cascadia Code , bundled with Terminal and the default for Visual Studio Code, is a great example of the breed. Others include the legendary Courier and Ubuntu Monospace.

A monospaced font ensures that columns of ch

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