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From: landers@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu (Chris Landers)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Why is Courier ugly?
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.011328.16296@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 91 01:13:28 GMT
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In article <1991Mar15.225317.13890@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
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>It is well known (regardless of whether it's true) that Courier is one of
>the ugliest fonts in the history of Western Civilization (such as it is).

I'm sorry, but that honor must go to Letter Gothic, especially as reproduced
on a WANG laser printer ;-)

>What I'd like to get is some consensus of _why_ it's considered so ugly.

I don't think Courier is ugly, it's just boring, and seen too often.



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