Alan B. Pearce wrote:

>> I don't understand how Courier could become the most used font (or one
>> of the most used fonts) in computing?
> 
> Because it is probably the easiest to find fixed pitch font on most GUI
> systems? On a lot of systems it is probably the only fixed pitch font
> available.

Yes, I know... but that's exactly what I wonder about. How could this
happen? Among the various fixed pitch fonts I have, it's the least usable
for any programming or system config work because of the similarity of
several character pairs. I just wonder who started this craziness, and why
it is perpetuated over so many years.

Gerhard

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