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it's a much narrower glyph than the type I'm used to.

Exactly this. Maybe if I'd be staring at it for days it would be ok, but right now it feels uncomfortable to read, to the point I'm probably not even going to try. Then again, just like the other commenter I always come back to Consolas or something so similar that it's hard to distinguish.

On a sidenote: what is the font is this textbox I'm typing in?




> On a sidenote: what is the font is this textbox I'm typing in?

Can’t say. The stylesheet specifies ‘monospace’, so the font is whatever your browser’s default monospace font is. For me, it’s Courier. But yours could be anything.


If you open developer tools on chrome, under the computed tab, the very last panel will tell you what font it used to render the glyphs inside the element you inspected.




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