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From: preston@lll-crg.llnl.gov (David R Preston)
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Subject: Re: Why is Courier ugly?
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Date: 23 Mar 91 08:44:33 GMT
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In article <1991Mar20.171526.27975@cl.cam.ac.uk> cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson) writes:
>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?

Perhaps, it's certainly lighter than the courier built-in to the HP Deskjet+.

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