# Code areas use different font with different spacing

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/code-areas-use-different-font-with-different-spacing/29715
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [June 6, 2015, 7:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/code-areas-use-different-font-with-different-spacing/29715 "2015-06-06T07:25:49Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2015, 8:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/code-areas-use-different-font-with-different-spacing/29715/5 "2015-06-06T08:03:32Z")

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Markdown seems pretty unanimous about how to treat that 🙂 and we are doing the right thing.

If you want a monospace font in your editor go for that, by adding a site customization.

I am torn, my personal pref is for monospace markdown textareas, but there is a strong argument monospace makes this “more computery” and “less friendly”. Ultimately this is a decision that is up to @codinghorror. Even cooking Stack Exchange uses monospace (but on the other hand they do not display stuff side by side).

```
----A----x----B----x----x----HEAD
               \
                x----x----C

```

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