# Use fixed-width numbers in mobile view topic progress

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-fixed-width-numbers-in-mobile-view-topic-progress/380866
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** topic-timeline, fixed
**Created:** [August 29, 2025, 7:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-fixed-width-numbers-in-mobile-view-topic-progress/380866 "2025-08-29T07:37:51Z")
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### Author: ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-fixed-width-numbers-in-mobile-view-topic-progress/380866/3 "2025-09-19T19:32:23Z")

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I just played around a bit with padding and `ch` units but nothing is really perfect. I think the monospace font idea is the better bet, but our current jetbrains one does look a bit off to me:

 ![CleanShot 2025-09-19 at 13.28.08@2x](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/d/2/7d2e072eb77e14d2ca8845dc6133028c00133090.png)

We could use `ch` units, but then for example 4ch will work up until 9/XX, 5ch will work till 99/XX and 6ch would cover almost everything (up to XX/100) but then it might get quite spacious for no reason most of the time?

Anyway maybe for now, I’ll implement the 6ch min-width, which should improve most topics.

Edit: [UX: improve progress styling on mobile by chapoi · Pull Request #34886 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/34886)

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