PHP MIRRORS 20 RE FIXED WIDTH FONTS
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 22:56:32 +0100

Subject: Re: fixed width fonts
From: davey@no-spam (Davey)

nospam@no-spam wrote:
> hello,
> > just a little question: why don't you (finally) use another font for any fixed width contents? as i see this, you have currently "courier" specified. at least on windows systems, this isn't well readable (it's a raster font, no truetype), and especially not for italic text, which happens to appear quite often.

> > my suggestion would be to just replace this property with "andale mono, courier new", at an optimal size of 9pt or 12px (for the case the other "verdana" text is at 8pt or 11px).

> > -yves >
A better suggestion would be the "monospace" family, then its upto the browser (and the user) what font is used. And again, "sans-serif" family instead of "verdana".

- Davey