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Yeah, if everyone was used to reading monospaced fonts then proportional fonts would be hard to read. I suspect there might be a bit of an advantage for proport
by upofadown 4y ago
Yeah, if everyone was used to reading monospaced fonts then proportional fonts would be hard to read. I suspect there might be a bit of an advantage for proportional in terms of ultimate reading speed in that you might be able to fit in an extra word in your scan, but the alignment of a fixed grid might help a bit too. The real value of proportional fonts is that you can print more stuff on the page and make your book shorter and cheaper. In today's world the paper is basically free, so that is no longer an issue. It just means that you have less text on the screen and will have to page a bit more often.
- ghaff 4y agoI have to disagree a bit. Even stipulating that there may be some economic drivers for more compact text, my observation is people largely switched to using proportional fonts (outside of some specialty cases like code or tabular data) as soon as it was technologically possible to do so. People generally preferred proportional fonts when it was practical to use them with the equipment reasonable at their disposal.