Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better

Re:Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better by feelix on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @09:59PM (#18803890)

didn't the very first paragraph fta make things sufficiently clear?

"Since the beginning, screenplays have been written in Courier. Its uniformity allows filmmakers to make handy comparisons and estimates, such as 1 page = 1 minute of screen time."

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Re:Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better by whoisjuan on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @01:44AM (#18804623)

Yeah. I read that part, but I didn't know about the idiosyncrasies behind the use of the font, so it wasn't fully clear to me why was important in this industry to heavily rely on a particular font.

Also, read the HN guidelines. Comments like this degrade the quality of the discussions. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better by munificent on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @12:12AM (#18804318)

It does, but it's easy to underestimate how important this is to the film industry.

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Re:Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better by _underflow_ on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @07:57AM (#18805864)

As a non-seasoned complete outsider, I thought this part of the article was somehow being dryly facetious or sarcastic or something. Kinda good to have somebody to provide context, actually.

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Re:Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better by asjo on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @11:27AM (#18807332)

So there were no screenplays before 1956? (When the Courier typeface was created.)

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Re:Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better by blacksmith_tb on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @03:23PM (#18809814)

I would think they were typed on manual typewriters (so the tradition of using Courier probably stems from those days).

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