It’s really practical and beautiful - if you’re into that kind of thing. If you try only one monospaced font (that is not Courier New) go with my favorite: Liberation Mono. It speeds up my proofreading and editing process quite a bit and if you haven’t tried it yourself yet, this is the time to give it a shot.
For your internal workflow however, you can work with whatever works best for you, and for me it’s all about monospaced fonts. One could argue, that serif fonts (think Times New Roman) are easier to read than sans serif fonts (think Arial) and that is the reason why most books are printed in serif fonts. Usually books are not printed in monospaced fonts though. Still, they have the huge benefit (that might be subjective though) to be easily readable, even by OCR software. Many “hipster” or “vintage” designs work with those fonts. It immediately gives retro vibes to a block of text. Monospaced fonts are still in use today, mainly for aesthetic and practical reasons. For huge bodies of text it’s just not convenient, even though the readability is quite good, despite it being pixelated on purpose. This is a remake of the old font on the C64 line of computers back in the 1980’s. It’s perfect for easy consumption and readability.
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Many scripts for TV shows or movies are still written this way. What’s left is people like me who have a personal taste for fonts like this and think that they are easy to read and “fly over” - especially when writing first or second drafts and doing your editing.ġ,5 linespace and monospaced fonts go really well together.
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As the tech behind the software improves though, the “need” for monospaced fonts disappears. They’re still being used in machine-processed typography (like in contracts or cheques) and can easily be identified by OCR software (text recognizing software). This clearly shows the difference between Courier New and Times New Roman.īut monospaced fonts also have several advantages. The advantage of this is a better use of available space and a more natural looking typography. Each letter had to fit exactly in one block. It was not possible of showing a single letter “between” two blocks, so again, all the characters of a fontset had to have the same width. Imagine them as separate blocks, that could be inhabited by a character/letter. These old computers usually were capable of either showing 40 or 80 characters in a line.
It was similar on early computers, like the C64 and early IBM compatibles. Typewriters had a fixed number of letters, that could fit into any one line of text, so the letters all had to be the same width. This was necessary, back in the day of typewriters and early computers. Simple answer: All letters take up the same horizontal space.
If you’re a font-afficionado as well, read on to get to know some of the most beautiful and practical monospaced fonts. This is the source of my habit collecting fontsets that I like. So, it comes of no surprise, that I have a thing for old typewriter and computer fonts.Īs I am working as a graphics designer, I naturally work a lot with typography and I stumble across new and old fonts on a regular basis. I enjoy old tech (where applicable) and the nostalgia and focus associated with using it.
If you’ve read a few of my other pieces, you already know that I’m kinda backwards.
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