How to avoid texts shifting around with changing values in a variable pitch line?

1. use U+2007 FIGURE SPACE to pad numbers (not space, which may have different width to the digits)
2. use U+2212 MINUS SIGN instead of the ascii '-' character.

Nice 8x8 bitmap fonts freely available.

An article on how to make a handwritten font with Inkscape (trace bitmap) and Fontforge.

TL;DR: they are converging to sans-serif font mostly for simplification and readability purpose.

Run a tournament to choose your favorite font! A brilliant idea. The winner for me is Fira Code.