VGA monospaced text always looked kind of exotic to me, because I started out looking mainly at the Amiga's Topaz font. Before that, the TRS-80 font, which also

VGA monospaced text always looked kind of exotic to me, because I started out looking mainly at the Amiga's Topaz font. Before that, the TRS-80 font, which also seems to have been quite different. And after that, the Macintosh's Monaco and Courier. I always hated Windows Courier New and much prefer Consolas. My favorite is, or was, Computer Modern Typewriter.