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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Why is Courier ugly?
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.160912.16204@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 18 Mar 91 16:09:12 GMT
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In article <41361@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> sanglee@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU (Sang-Ho Lee) writes:

>Several people mentioned how "thin" Courier is, but maybe it depends on whose
>version of Courier one is looking at? 

Yes, we have some NEC 890's and an HP IIID w/HP's postscript cartridge.  On
the NEC's, Courier comes out looking about like normal typerwriter text but
on the HP it is so thin it is almost unreadable.  (On the other hand,
everything else looks better from the HP).

I really miss having Letter Gothic, though.  Years of generating text
from Diablo daisy-wheel printers and software that couldn't allign
the proportional fonts have left me with the feeling that Letter Gothic
is the best font for casual text (correspondence, etc.).

Also, I wish that the built-in postscript fonts had built-in variants
with slashed zeros.  I know that this is trivial to arrange in native
postscript, but it is not trivial to arrange for all your applications
to do it, so unless you have a post-processing step you end up with
confusing output.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us