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Pitch is the number of (
monospaced A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. This contrasts with variable-width fonts, where the letters and spaci ...
) letters, numbers and spaces in of , that is, ''characters per inch'' (abbreviated cpi), measured horizontally. The pitch was most often used as a measurement of the size of
typewriter A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters. Typically, a typewriter has an array of keys, and each one causes a different single character to be produced on paper by striking an inked ribbon selectivel ...
fonts as well as those of impact printers used with computers. The most widespread fonts in typewriters are 10 and 12 pitch, called ''Pica'' and ''Elite'', respectively. Both fonts have the same
x-height upright 2.0, alt=A diagram showing the line terms used in typography In typography, the x-height, or corpus size, is the distance between the baseline and the mean line of lowercase letters in a typeface. Typically, this is the height of the let ...
, yielding six lines per vertical inch. There may be other font styles with various width: condensed or compressed (17–20 cpi), italic or bold (10 pitch), enlarged (5–8 cpi), and so on. ''Pica'', the typewriter font, should not be confused with pica, a unit equal to of an inch or twelve points, usually measured vertically.


See also

* Copyfitting Estimating the average number of characters per line for a proportionately spaced font. * * *
Proportional spacing A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font. There are thousands o ...
A proportional typeface contains
glyph A glyph () is any kind of purposeful mark. In typography, a glyph is "the specific shape, design, or representation of a character". It is a particular graphical representation, in a particular typeface, of an element of written language. A g ...
s of varying widths, while a monospaced (non-proportional or fixed-width) typeface uses a single standard width for all glyphs in the font. Consequently, the pitch of a proportionally spaced font is undefined.


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* {{cite web, title=100 typewriter typefaces compared, url=http://xoverit.blogspot.ru/2014/03/100-typewriter-typefaces-compared.html, website=x over it, date=19 March 2014 Typewriters