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What are some good fixed width fonts for everyday use rather than just coding and text art? I'm looking for something with serifs, and i'd like to add a couple characters that don't exist in Unicode so something with a license that permits modifications is good. Lowercase numbers i could take or leave.

Apparently typewriters were mostly fixed width (i think, i've never used one) so a font based on a typewriter typeface should be fine but a lot of what i can find is proportional or just ugly.

Thanks in advance.

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[-] tychosmoose@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

Courier Prime might be worth a look. Very compatible with Courier in size, but more readable and with a much less restrictive license.

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