Figure space

{{Short description|Typographical space as wide as a numeral}}

A figure space or numeric space{{cite web |url=https://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/CS01310.txt |title=Symbols - Personal Computer |id=GCSGID 01310 |date=1996 |work=REGISTRY, Graphic Character Sets and Code Pages |author=IBM |author-link=IBM}} is a typographic unit equal to the size of a single numerical digit. Its size can fluctuate somewhat depending on which font is being used. This is the preferred space to use in numbers. It has the same width as a digit and keeps the number together for the purpose of line breaking.{{cite journal|editor1-last=Heninger|editor1-first=Andy|title=Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm|journal=Technical Reports|date=2013-01-25|volume=Annex #14|issue=Proposed Update Unicode Standard|page=19|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13022-uax14-31.pdf|access-date=10 March 2015|format=PDF|quote=WORD JOINER should be used if the intent is to merely prevent a line break}}