RE: Killing comic sans

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Dan Goldstein wrote: 
 
> Just a quick shout-out to my buddy Trebuchet, which makes a clear
> distinction between the upper-case "eye," the lower-case "L," and the
> digit "one" -- and looks good doin' it, too.

Agreed. But for things like code snippets, you really should use a monospaced font. As a replacement for Courier (which doesn't clearly distinguish 1 from l), I like Lucida Sans Typewriter. 


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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