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Comment by nielsbot

2 years ago

For me, I think proportional fonts are the way text was meant to seen, and monospaced fonts exist to accommodate the limitations of computers, printers and typewriters.

Why is that? In text or punctuation?

For words it’s more readable. The punctuation is designed for coding. The numerals are still monospaced.

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