A font that places more characters on a line and requires a different amount of space based on the shape and needs of each character; a proportional font closely resembles printed text.
A proportional font's characters have different widths. Proportional fonts tend to be easier to read than fixed-width fonts. The user may select which proportional font to use as a base font.
Proportional fonts are fonts whose characters take up more or less space depending on the individual character. For example, an "i" will take less space than an "o" will. Proportional fonts are also called variable width fonts. Common examples include Times and Helvetica. Fixed width fonts are fonts whose characters all take up the same amount of space.
Fonts that have letters or characters of varying widths. The horizontal space occupied by each characters is "propotional" to its shape, therefore an "l" takes up less space than a "w". This is why it is impossible to line up vertical data using just the space bar if you are using proprtional fonts. This is also why the unit of measurment for size is a vertical measurment, points.
any font whose different characters have different widths
A proportional font is a font whose width varies depending on the individual characters.
A set of characters with a variable amount of horizontal space allotted to each. For example, the letter has less space allotted to it than the letter .
A typeface in which the width of a character varies, i.e., an "i" is narrower than an "m."
A font in which different characters have varying widths. See also Screen Font, Soft Font, TrueType Fonts.
Any font in which characters differ in width. For example, in the proportional font used here, the letter "M" is wider than the letter "l". Thus, "MMMMM" is wider than "lllll".
Any font in which different characters have different widths; thus, the space taken up by words having the same number of letters can vary.
A font whose characters have varying amounts of horizontal space depending on the width of the character. Thus, the uppercase M takes up more horizontal space than the lowercase l.
