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From: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong)
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Subject: Re: Non-Proportional Fonts
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Date: 26 Nov 90 04:45:13 GMT
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In article <1990Nov26.033449.15210@athena.mit.edu> cabruen@athena.mit.edu 
(Charles Alan Bruen) writes:
>
>Does anyone have a particulary favorite non-proportional postscript font
>they like. I need to include computer code inside documents and have
>found nothing to my satisfication as of yet.
>
Hardly surprising. Monospaced fonts are uniformly ugly. :-) If you're
using Adobe fonts your choices are more or less limited to "typewriter
fonts--Courier, Prestige Elite, and the like.

Depending on just what kind of listings you're doing, though, you
may not actually NEED monospaced fonts (e.g., unless you're doing
tabular material, a proportional might do as well). In that case, may
I recommend Glypha (a slab-serif) or American Typewriter? Both work
well as a flag to the reader that "this is listing, not body copy" and
both are nice-looking, readable faces. For something a little heavier,
you could try Franklin Gothic (a sans serif).

--Kathy



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