Re: A Few Monospaced Font Links

She...@excite.com (Spirit of the Night) posted
<367...@news.midwest.net> on Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:38:33 GMT, which
said:

| On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 09:14:55 GMT, Firedraake
| <fir...@earthlink.net> wrote:
| 
| >Here are some freebie monospaced fonts worth checking out if you're short
| >on your selection of Fixed-Width Fonts!
| 
| 
| I've picked up a few (dozen) fonts for web page and newsletter design
| but I rarely come across fixed width fonts. Can you send information
| about others you have found? 

Usually, when I find a new (to me) fixed-width font, I first post the URLs
here, then I post the binaries to news:alt.binaries.fonts.  I'm always on
the lookout for fixed-width fonts as I think the whole concept of
fixed-width is more deserving than the attention it gets with relationship
to variable-width fonts.

People have made comments that reading fixed-width fonts in Agent (and
other newsreaders) is just plain ugly.  I guess beauty truly is in the eye
of the beholder because I can't stand reading arial fonts in newsreaders.
I use Lucida Casual for my variable width favorite and Andale Mono as my
regular fixed-width.

| Is there a fixed width font close to the standard fixed sys?

I always thought Fixedsys was too heavy.  IMHO, it makes the letters too
thick and bright on the screen, so I prefer thinner fonts.  I wish I had
like a hairline fixed font with really thin lines, similar to Andale.

| I don't
| like how courier changes some of the characters which looked great
| when I made the ascii pic in fixed sys. I used fixed sys as much as I
| can but in Outlook they get a touch mangled with courier.

Are you speaking of Courier or Courier New?  Courier New looks much better
than Courier, though unless my tastes have changed, I really don't care for
Courier New on newsreaders or Web Pages.

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