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From: sanglee@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU (Sang-Ho Lee)
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Subject: Re: Why is Courier ugly?
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Date: 18 Mar 91 05:59:06 GMT
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Several people mentioned how "thin" Courier is, but maybe it depends on whose
version of Courier one is looking at?  I know that the LaserWriter I use
produces very thin Courier, but on the other hand, I am holding the book
"The UNIX Progamming Environment" by Kernighan and Pike, which says,
"This book was typeset in Times and Courier by the authors,...".  Its Courier
is definitely not thin at all.  Or perhaps the PostScript Courier has
trouble properly scaling the stroke thickness at large sizes.