Xref: utzoo comp.fonts:2134 comp.lang.postscript:8066 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!mucs!p4.cs.man.ac.uk!gilbertd From: gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Dave Gilbert) Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Why is Courier ugly? Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 12:43:38 GMT References: <1991Mar15.225317.13890@ico.isc.com> <1991Mar19.011328.16296@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu> Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk Followup-To: comp.fonts Lines: 24 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). >What I'd like to get is some consensus of _why_ it's considered so ugly. 1) I think Courier is a non-proportionaly spaced font - thus I has the same space as W - which looks pretty bad - as fonts go. 2) Consider the laser printer manufacturers - they supply the machines with bad fonts - that way they have a good chance of other people buying better fonts - I wouldn't put this past printer manufacturers! 3) Its been around for a long time - better stuff has appeared, but you've got to keep courier since things might just use it. Dave Gilbert -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Dave Gilbert - gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk - The MTBF of a piece of equipment - - G7FHJ@GB7NWP - is inversly proportional to its - ------------------------------------------- importance -