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From: cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Why is Courier ugly?
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.171526.27975@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Mar 91 17:15:26 GMT
References: <1991Mar15.225317.13890@ico.isc.com> <93404@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <1991Mar18.033236.20461@athena.mit.edu> <41361@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
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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?  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.


The reason that Adobe's "Courier" is so light is surely that they have set
themselves the requirement to have a "Courier-Bold" with the same spacing?

Chris Thompson
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