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Old 09-11-2021, 06:47 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by FDPuthuff View Post
What I ended up doing was setting the CCS for this text to san-serif. I couldn't find an .otf file for the text I wanted anyway. So I passed on embedding and went that direction.
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What I was dealing with, was representing text on an older computer terminal. It has a very distinctive look. San-serif and mono-spaced.
Source Code Pro is a very good monospace font by Adobe.

Free + open source + SIL license.

They also have Source Serif Pro + Source Sans Pro if you need similar-style matching fonts. (These 2 are now called "Source Serif" + "Source Sans".)

A lot of this monospace + font stuff was also discussed in:

2019: "Font Best Practices"
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