Comment by chrismorgan
4 days ago
Courier New is a bad font that no one should choose to use. In typical font-weight terms, where Regular should be 400, it’s 200–250, because it was improperly digitised, not taking ink bleed into account. Windows put some hacks into ClearType to make it render a little less badly, but they’re not dependable these days.
(“Courier”, as provided by macOS, is fine. But Courier New is irredeemably bad.)
Concerning font-family declarations, if you’re doing something like `"Courier New", Courier, monospace`—please just write `monospace`.
(I’m not going to address the font size.)
It renders terribly on sizes below ~14px, even on a Retina display. No anti-aliasing setting can save it.
A modern typeface like IBM Plex Mono [1] or Office Code Pro [2] that offers more weights and can still render nicely at 10px size would be a better choice, maintaining the same aesthetic.
[1] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/IBM+Plex+Mono
[2] https://open-foundry.com/fonts/office-code-pro
Yep, on my phone I opened this page and closed it in 20 seconds. Can't see shit, captain! Didn't figure out if it's the font, weight, or size but this is the worst looking website I've hit in a while.