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A Mono-spaced confession

Found this on blog which I recently discovered and felt kind of caught.

… Your nerd lives in a monospaced typeface world. Whereas everyone else is traipsing around picking dazzling fonts to describe their world, your nerd has carefully selected a monospace typeface… The reason for this typeface selection is, of course, practicality. Monospace typefaces have a knowable width. Ten letters on one line are same width as ten other letters The Nerd Handbook

And yes, mine is Nitti Light  which comes with  iA Writer. And then there’s of course  DejaVu Sans Mono, or was it  Cousin. Yet another positive (in my opinion) side effect of using monospaced fonts for writing, is the  illusion  of actually writing  fast. Using a rather large monospaced font (like for example in  iA Writer), the lines fill up very quickly, and I find this not only motivating, but it also somehow keeps my thoughts flowing and makes me  think faster. It just somehow feels much more effective to write this way. On a similar topic you might want to have a look at this article  on Hivelogic. Maybe I need to get out and do some photography. Well, soon it’s spring again.

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