A friend of mine has a great blog where he writes all his posts on a typewriter. Then he photographs the typed page and posts it, unedited. One of his recent posts he questions why the font on his typewriter has serifs for some characters, but not others. This question made me think about why I like mono-spaced fonts.
In that spirit, I typed this blog draft in BBedit using a mono-spaced font, and took a screenshot the draft. This computer version is not the same as using a real mechanical typewriter with real paper. But it does use a mono-spaced font. Here’s the screenshots:
