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by pacaro 3320 days ago
It's to keep the page weight balanced. Prose is considered to have neutral buoyancy, but code is naturally heavier and will tend to drag the page down if that isn't compensated by a lighter font. FWIW poetry can be so light, that it can require a very heavy font weight to keep it tethered to the page.
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