Thread: lack of monospace / fixed width font
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Old 08-25-2019, 10:48 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by RobertJSawyer View Post
Well, the Kobo devices are designed to display books, and almost no print books are typeset in monospaced fonts.
Several books I've read recently used monospace for text messages. Why I'm not sure but likely it looks more computerish.

Then there have been several books such as Andy Weir's The Martian where the computer generated and operating system messages used a monospace font.

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