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From: tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill)
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Subject: Re: Summary of responses to "Why is Courier ugly?"
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Date: 29 Mar 91 20:31:36 GMT
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rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>
> [a good summary of Courier design problems]
> 
> There were various pleas for a "decent fixed-pitch font."

What???  There are already plenty of decent fixed-width fonts, it's
just that LazyWriters don't have them by default.  You have to give
Adobe credit for vastly improving the looks of desktop publishing
(remember Computer Modern?), but that credit is somewhat diminshed
by their foisting Courier upon the world.

Prestige is an excellent fixed-width font; it's almost as nice in the
Imagen implementation as on a Selectric typewriter.  Text in Prestige
elite can be easier to read than text in certain variable-pitch fonts
(I won't name names).

I like the IBM PC screen font, which more responsible for the success
of the PC than people give it credit for being.  The "serif" fonts on
Sun workstations are nice, as are the Motif (?) fonts on DECstations.
I've never seen any printer versions of these fonts, though.