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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Why is Courier ugly?
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Date: 17 Mar 91 02:50:53 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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Courier is ugly because it is too plain for a text font and too spindly
and serif-y for a line printer font.  Its origins lie in the exigencies
of making a cheap mechanical typewriter do its job adequately through
six carbons and seven owners.  Nothing about it is a "natural" for
computer use -- it's just there out of a sort of grandfather clause.