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didn't the very first paragraph fta make things sufficiently clear? "Since the beginning, screenplays have been written in Courier. Its uniformity allows filmm
by feelix 8y ago
didn't the very first paragraph fta make things sufficiently clear?
"Since the beginning, screenplays have been written in Courier. Its uniformity allows filmmakers to make handy comparisons and estimates, such as 1 page = 1 minute of screen time."
- munificent 8y agoIt does, but it's easy to underestimate how important this is to the film industry.
- whoisjuan 8y agoYeah. I read that part, but I didn't know about the idiosyncrasies behind the use of the font, so it wasn't fully clear to me why was important in this industry to heavily rely on a particular font. Also, read the HN guidelines. Comments like this degrade the quality of the discussions. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- _underflow_ 8y agoAs a non-seasoned complete outsider, I thought this part of the article was somehow being dryly facetious or sarcastic or something. Kinda good to have somebody to provide context, actually.
- asjo 8y agoSo there were no screenplays before 1956? (When the Courier typeface was created.)
- blacksmith_tb 8y agoI would think they were typed on manual typewriters (so the tradition of using Courier probably stems from those days).