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From: zombie@voodoo.UUCP (Mike York)
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Subject: Re: Why is Courier ugly?
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Date: 19 Mar 91 17:26:37 GMT
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In article <1991Mar19.011328.16296@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu> landers@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu (Chris Landers) writes:
>In article <1991Mar15.225317.13890@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>>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 ;-)

I'm sorry, you're both wrong.  OCRB is the ugliest, most hideous, disgusting
font in the history of the universe.  ;^)

Unfortunately, the Air Transport Association dictates that manuals for
airplanes be printed with "a sans-serif monospaced font" which is generally
interpreted as OCRB.  So that's what we use in our manuals.  What I wouldn't 
give to use Courier for text paragraphs and Helvetica for illustrations...

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    Mike York                            |  "Lord help me, I'm just not
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