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Programmers use monospaced fonts. (Undoubtedly for good reasons.) Nobody else does. (I’m actually no programmer and I like to use Letter Gothic – a monospaced
by ugh 16y ago
Programmers use monospaced fonts. (Undoubtedly for good reasons.) Nobody else does.
(I’m actually no programmer and I like to use Letter Gothic – a monospaced font – for my personal written correspondence on paper. I don’t want my letters to look like they were sent from some corporation and the monospaced font makes the letters more personal without being childish. I would guess that I’m in a small minority, though.)
- 1337p337 16y agoNot just programmers. I've done some work for a lawyer, and a lot of filings and briefs use monospace fonts (wide margins and double-spacing, too). Most drafts and manuscripts are the same, to make things easier to mark up. I think it's also true of screenplays, but I've only had incidental contact with those. I'm sure plenty of other fields use monospace.
- apotheon 16y agoBasically, any field that requires any rigor tends to deal a lot in monospace fonts. Writing for Slate is not one of those fields.
- ugh 16y agoI see no connection between rigor and monospace fonts. Where do you see it?
- apotheon 16y agoFormatting. It's tougher to render (for instance) source code in a clear, easily understood fashion in a proportional font than in a monospace font. The same goes for a lot of mathematical and scientific writing, cases where red-pen editor's marks are needed, and so on.