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Which font do you use

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I was reading Sriram's posts about his fling with fonts which reminded me that I have a peculiar attachment with courier new. I use it liberally. My emails are in Courier new teal and my website is also in the same font but uses a different color scheme (white over black). Since most of the time I'm coding and editors typically use fixed width font like courier new, I kind of got used to it.

Each time I boot up a new box, I set the console font to courier and some insanely small size. Again I have an obsession with seeing as much as I can in a single screen.

However, working in Adobe had got me in touch with some people for whom fonts are the very basis of existance. I saw one of them cringe when one mentioned "font format". He went into a lengthy lecture on how modern fonts are actually languages that specify curves and not a format like the older Bitmapped fonts.

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  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2007
    I prefer Lucida for my mono-spaced font.