Don’t lump Courier and Courier New together. Courier (which Apple includes) is fine; it’s only Courier New (which Windows includes) that’s atrociously light, be

Don’t lump Courier and Courier New together. Courier (which Apple includes) is fine; it’s only Courier New (which Windows includes) that’s atrociously light, because it was digitised very badly incorrectly. It actually used to be not so bad, because they kinda patched it to make it usable with hinting, and then special-cased it in ClearType, but those don’t really go far enough and aren’t consistently reliable anyway, so it’s just an awful font. But no browser defaults to Courier New any more—Firefox on Windows was the last browser to finally update to a better font, just under a year ago (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607913 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607913).