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Re:Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web by thristian on Thursday August 12, 2010 @11:57PM (#1600026)
Ye gods, please no more Courier New! Maybe, just maybe if you're trying to reproduce 1950s police reports or something, but there's so many much nicer monspaced fonts available these days. I'd start with:

    "Consolas", "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", monospace
...but you might want to include Andale Mono, Droid Sans Mono, Inconsolata, Lucida Console or Monaco as well.
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Re:Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web by chadgeidel on Friday August 13, 2010 @05:05PM (#1602290)
I love Consolas, but really if your visitors are not on Vista/Windows 7 it's unlikely they will have it.

EDIT: I believe there is a large population of folks that don't like ClearType hinted fonts. Consolas looks absolutely horrible unless you have ClearType on and tuned. I can't speak to Consolas on any Linux-based OS as I've never tried it.

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Re:Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web by leif on Saturday August 14, 2010 @03:13AM (#1603080)
I don't like it either, but people are used to it and it serves its purpose. You can put it after 'mono' if you like.
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