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This reminds me of when PayPal ran all those billboard ads for Braintree in the Bay Area. I can just imagine the meeting where the team decided how they were going to look:

   Product: "We need to engage more with our developer customers."
   Marketing: "What do developers have strong positive emotions about?"
   Product: "Our customer interviews suggest they like writing code."
   Design: "We'll do the billboards entirely in monospace."
   Marketing: "Brilliant."
It probably sounded like a good idea at the time, but monospace looks ugly and doesn't read very well to humans, especially from a distance. It's just a necessary evil to make sure indentation works properly. Actual developers instantly realize how silly it is to make it the prevailing visual feature on a billboard.

Especially when the copy doesn't even line up vertically. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0qaKcUCAAA-enL.jpg




I don't even think that's monospace.


It's not. The letters on subsequent lines don't match up.


That's because the spaces are not monospaced.


Yup. It isn't even monospace. It is someone's idea of what monospace looks like.




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