What’s the font that the

“a blockquote code em strong ul ol li font strike center u hr.”

message at the bottom of the post editing box is in?

I’m sure it used to be called Terminal or something, what everything on Windows 3.1 looked like…

is it not courier?

It depends – the font family is: “Monaco, ‘Courier New’, monospace;”. So if you have Monaco it’ll be that, if not then Courier New, if not then whatever your system’s default monospaced font is.

edit: p.s. This is a question for us aesthetically minded code monkey, not the crayola mob.

I think ocra is pretty close

its Courier New

Courier will do, thanks chaps

Consolas (it’s probably on your PC)…

http://www.identifont.com/similar?ALX

What’s the font that the

“a blockquote code em strong ul ol li font strike center u hr.”

Be careful now – in a thread where myself and other luddites questioned what all that runic gibberish at the bottom of the page meant I copied pasted some of it into the thread and broke the page so much thread had to be taken outside by the mods and shot

The stylesheet says it’s Monaco for preference, Courier New if Monaco is not available, or Monospace as a fallback

in which case none of us then know what IHN can actually see, hence there being three very different candidates put forward, courier, consolas and binners’ freaky one.

IHN has said that courier is closest, which is what I see on my computer (Win 7), those on Fisher Price Apple machines probably see something completely different?

we see everything differently, even when our computers are switch off

In case you are confused:

Webpages have to be displayed on lots of different computers, and they don’t all have the same fonts installed. Generally speaking, Windows will have one set, Mac another, Ubuntu another etc. So you can specify a font in a webpage, but if it doesn’t exist it’ll just use the default, with crap results.

So you specify a list in terms of preference, which is what lemonysam is talking about. And possibly the reason why Stoner is seeing it differently to you – he’s probably on his Chromebook and they could have different fonts.

Any system though will have a default font and a default monospace font. Monospace being one where all the letters are the same width. It looks crude but it’s important for such things as code where the spacing is important.

I found a really handy app called “What the Font”, you take a photo of some text, give it a few hints what characters are what, and it (usually) tells you what it is.

Fabulous.

we see everything differently, even when our computers are switch off

Indeed.

This is STW. It’s obviously the font of all knowledge.

IHN has said that courier is closest, which is what I see on my computer (Win 7), those on Fisher Price Apple machines probably see something completely different?

Probably, that’s why most design/print studios worldwide use Macs, because it’s too dangerous to allow the staff to have access to scissors, scalpels and glue, and they’ll scribble all over the walls if crayons and markers are left around.

By a strange coincidence I’ve just found this on Flipboard:
Think Retro: Apple’s fonts have always been as classy as its products
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/mac-software/think-retro-apples-fonts-have-always-been-as-classy-as-its-products-3597456/
Wouldn’t entirely agree with everything written here, Motter Tektura was a shitty font even when it was new, and I was never that fond of the particular version of Garamond, for that matter, but it’s an interesting look at how type becomes synonymous with a product.