Typodarium 2027 Calendar

Fonts are as diverse as people. There are loud and quiet ones, clear and complex ones. And then there are monospaced fonts. They originate from typewriters, where each stamp had the same width and the letter forms therefore only had a narrow and uniform space. In the digital world, they were used as computer-readable typography and have remained the standard for writing code and programming.

For a long time, people looked down on them as overly structured and dull, if not ugly. But young and contemporary font designers have shown that even within a narrow corset, there is plenty of room for imagination and beauty. That's why we present one of these monospaced fonts (not only) every Sunday in this Typodarium. As a little reminder of what applies to fonts just as much as it does to us humans: all different, all the same.