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That’s what I came to ask. Why is it a picture at all? A screen shot of text rather than the actual text? If it’s posted from his own account why post a screen shot of something he wrote? That frankly makes it less authentic and more weird.

The font itself is weird. It’s not a programming monospaced font it’s a typewriter font which has weird kerning and other aspects that make it both noticeable and less useful than a console font.

What an end to end bizarre post.




That's just courier, which was originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for their typewriters, but is perfectly fine as a programming font. Heck, you can find it in use as a programming font (in books, reports, papers, etc) probably going back to the 1950, so it's been a "programming font" for nearly 70 years.


I’m not saying people didn’t use this font for a terminal but it’s not a font designed for terminals it’s designed to optimize the strike of a typewriter. Using it on a modern terminal is anachronistic at best, but using it to provide the content of a tweet in an image is bizarre.




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