Re: Monospaced typeface

[Scott Byer <byer@Adobe.COM>]

Stainless Steel Rat writes:

Lars> This version uses a 12 point face, which is too big, I think.  It
Lars> looks nice, but the manual ends up being 300 pages, which is too much.
Lars> 10 point, perhaps?  What's the norm?

Rat> Book printing tends to be a 12 point Times Roman or similar face
Rat> (Palatino, Bookman, Schoolbook, etc).  But if you stick with Times
Rat> Roman (CMR -- an especially readable font) you can get down to 9-10
Rat> point and remain readable.  Anything smaller than that becomes a
Rat> problem for general reading.

Note that Times-Roman is small for it's size; a 12 point Times-Roman is
often equivalent bit-size-wise to many 11-point typefaces.

For monospaced, I prefer Lucida Typewriter (it's what I run Emacs with).
It's not as clunky as Courier.


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