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# isFixedPitch

A Boolean value indicating whether all glyphs in the font have the same advancement.

```
var isFixedPitch: Bool { get }
```

## Discussion

The value of this property is <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Swift/true> when all glyphs have the same advancement or <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Swift/false> when they do not. Some Japanese fonts encoded with the scheme “EUC12-NJE-CFEncoding” return that they have the same advancement, but actually encode glyphs with one of two advancements, for historical compatibility. You may need to handle such fonts specially for some applications.

## See Also

[`advancement(forGlyph:)`](/documentation/AppKit/NSFont/advancement(forGlyph:))

Returns the nominal spacing for the given glyph—the distance the current point moves after showing the glyph—accounting for the receiver’s size.


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