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Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better

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Re: Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better

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Post by grmartin »

heyjudy wrote: post #20

Probably good for full-screen writing. Anywho. Feel free to add an opinion, I've been evaluating and whittling choices of fonts for code development: So far Monaco and Source Code Pro seem best. - Fira Mono https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fira+Mono - Hack https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/ - Inconsolata https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inconsolata - Monaco http://www.gringod.com/2006/11/01/new-version-of-monaco-font.…

Its not 'free' but i like Eco Coding for programming: https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/s-core/eco-coding/

Re: Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better

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Post by tptacek »

cryo wrote: post #2

It is a bit confusing that the body text of the site has set Avenir Next as font family.

First, the site for the font isn't itself a screenplay; there's no reason for it to be set in Courier. Second, setting the site in a neutral typeface draws attention to the Courier font in the callouts.

Re: Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better

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Post by fernly »

I just made specimen paragraphs in Courier, Courier New, Courier Prime and Prime Code, and Cousine[1]. I believe I much prefer the latter, for code and editing. Also, despite looking beefier, Cousine text takes exactly the same horizontal width as the Couriers do at the same nominal point size.

[1] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cousine

Re: Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

crazygringo wrote: post #26

This is great. Also, making it heavier is 1,000% necessary -- Courier has always been so anemic it can actually be difficult to read when printed (and Courier New is even worse). I don't know the history, but I've long wondered if it was because digital Courier was based on the (thin) metal typewriter letterforms, rather than the letters set to paper which would presumably have (thicker) bleed. Now I just wonder if s…

> I don't know the history, but I've long wondered if it was because digital Courier was based on the (thin) metal typewriter letterforms, rather than the letters set to paper which would presumably have (thicker) bleed.

That is precisely why. Courier New was digitised off an IBM Selectric typeball, and they didn't correct for the ink bleed which the typeball was designed for.

Re: Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better

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Post by bwidlar »

heyjudy wrote: post #20

Probably good for full-screen writing. Anywho. Feel free to add an opinion, I've been evaluating and whittling choices of fonts for code development: So far Monaco and Source Code Pro seem best. - Fira Mono https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fira+Mono - Hack https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/ - Inconsolata https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inconsolata - Monaco http://www.gringod.com/2006/11/01/new-version-of-monaco-font.…

I cant use any other than Luculent http://eastfarthing.com/luculent (thanks Andrew Kensler).

Finding the Best Programming Font http://webagility.com/posts/finding-the-best-programming-fon...

Re: Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better

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Post by kbenson »

ZoF wrote: post #27
kbenson wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's less about how old it is, and more about how long it's been out of the general public consciousness. The courier font hasn't been (out of public view) in recent memory, so it doesn't have the same nostalgia factor.

Mailservers are just as much in the public view as they have been historically to be honest. If IMAP is viewed as nostalgia install postfix/dovecot on something and play around.

Careful reading would have shown I was talking about the courier MTA, and used mailserver only to distinguish it from the other meanings of courier. I made no claim that mailservers are not common.

I'm well aware of dovecot and postfix. And also sendmail and cucipop. Some things are more common now than than they were in the past, and vice versa.

Re: Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better

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Post by whoisjuan »

munificent wrote: post #25

This is a really neat solution to a very constrained problem space. For those who don't know, Hollywood lives and breathes 12 point Courier. It is the standard font for screenplays. Producers won't even look at a script that is set in anything else because it implies the author doesn't know industry culture and norms. Also, by having a standard font size and metrics, it means that the number of pages in a script dire…

Thanks for explaining this. I was having trouble to understand what was the concrete problem this font was trying to solve. That makes a lot of sense. Especially the standardization of text length to determine actual playtime.

Re: Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better

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Post by snazz »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #34
crazygringo wrote: post #26

This is great. Also, making it heavier is 1,000% necessary -- Courier has always been so anemic it can actually be difficult to read when printed (and Courier New is even worse). I don't know the history, but I've long wondered if it was because digital Courier was based on the (thin) metal typewriter letterforms, rather than the letters set to paper which would presumably have (thicker) bleed. Now I just wonder if s…

> I don't know the history, but I've long wondered if it was because digital Courier was based on the (thin) metal typewriter letterforms, rather than the letters set to paper which would presumably have (thicker) bleed. That is precisely why. Courier New was digitised off an IBM Selectric typeball, and they didn't correct for the ink bleed which the typeball was designed for.

Do you know why the people who digitized Courier made that (seemingly grave) omission? It seems like far too big of an oversight to simply sweep under the rug, after comparing the on-screen/printed-from-computer version with the typewriter version.
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