Fixed-width, or monospace, typefaces are often overlooked in typographic literature—absent even from the indexes of Bringhurst, Lupton, and Kinross. Yet few letterforms more clearly reveal the link between visible language and technology. From early typewriters and telegraphic systems to dot-matrix printers, digital displays, and coding environments, monospace fonts embody the constraints and logic of the machines that shaped them.

This exhibition was developed within a Type 3 class at ArtCenter taught by Prof. Simon Johnston, as a study of that relationship. With advice by HMCT’s typographer-in-residence Laurenz Brunner, students researched, designed, and produced a modular display. Each team explored a specific aspect of monospace typography, presented within a grid of black electrical tape that framed the work along the corridor walls—a utilitarian system echoing the precision of the typefaces themselves.

Participating students: Angela Baek, Ashley Jo, Benin Marshall, Chanjoo Yoon, Debbie Pan, Derrick Chang, Jack Burnside, Jihyun Kim, Karen Wang, Laura Proenza, Lina Yu, Suyu Ren, Tiffany Ho, Youra Oh, Zinc Wang, and TA Nohemy Ramos.