On: Mozilla launches new brand identity

[mattl]

"Selected to evoke the Courier font used as the original default in coding, Zilla has a journalistic feel reinforcing our commitment to participate in conversations about key issues of Internet health."

When was the Courier font ever used as a default in any editor?

[josteink → mattl]

> When was the Courier font ever used as a default in any editor?

Oh boy, do we have a youngster here.

Back in the days. Before true type (freely scalable) fonts. When Windows was based on DOS.

Even the default console font in MS DOS was courier-like.

It's not a far fetched claim. It definitely shows long roots.

Also: Show source in Firefox uses (used?) Courier iirc.

[mattl → josteink]

* The default console font in MS-DOS wasn't Courier like. It comes from the video hardware.

* Here's a screenshot of Windows 1.0 showing the various fonts it ships with, you'll note the Terminal font is different from Courier. https://youtu.be/KWEsBiIxMaU?t=558 and in another video here https://youtu.be/xiKwErpPwMs?t=154 -- you can see Windows 1.0 Notepad using non-Courier font.

* Here's Notepad for Windows 3.1 -- https://youtu.be/xO8eQUjjFNc?t=613

Perhaps you'll take a break from ageism and provide some better examples? FWIW, I'm about 2 years younger than you.

[lallysingh → mattl]

Quite a long time before Windows got other monospace fonts.