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Originally Posted by theducks
Fonts are just a way to voice types of characters or items.
Monospace = olde CRT computer messages
Script = Handwritten
Emoticons
This lack of 'voice' is why I dislike TTS. (My EZReader had this feature)
Almost as bad as one of the Baen Davids reading their work (on a Baen CD). 
To each their own. |
Sometimes a font is embedded so you can be sure of getting special characters.
In the book
The Martian, I found monospace to be important. It was used to represent the computer.