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From: geoff@pmafire.inel.gov (Geoff Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Why is Courier ugly?
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.154413.19923@pmafire.inel.gov>
Date: 21 Mar 91 15:44:13 GMT
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Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering, INEL, Idaho
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Taking comp.lang.postscript out of the distribution, since this doesn't
really concern postscript....

evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>Another problem is in the stroke weights. There's no variation, no thin
>and thick lines, everything's the same. Boring. On a sans-serif type
>like Avant Garde or Univers, you can get away with it, but only as a
>display font -- would you ever want to read a book whose body type was set
>in Avant Garde?

As a matter of fact, I have recently been reading a book set in a
sans-serif typeface.  The book itself is good, but it's very annoyong
and hard to read.  I want to grab the publisher by the throat as I'm
reading!  It strains the eyes to read it.  You don't realize how nice
serifs are in helping to understand what you're reading until you have
to do without them. 

(This book is also set with lots of leading, so the page has lots of
white space -- too much.  But that's another story. :^) )

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