Every type font has a personality. And every font, on some level, is conveying a message.<\/p>\n
Some fonts are all about being bold, or weird, or sexy, or seductive. Others seem to be trying to convince you that they live in some far-off science fiction future.<\/p>\n
But Courier font, that simple monospaced slab-serif typeface, is none of that. It’s not trying to impress you — in fact, quite the opposite.<\/p>\n
Courier font is telling you that this text is just trying to get things done. Nothing flashy, maybe just some copy whipped up right before press time by a newspaper reporter from the nineteen fifties on his trusty Underwood Champion manual typewriter.<\/p>\n
And that, to me, is a wonderful message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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