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by TylerE 995 days ago
Disagree. Reading monospaced prose sucks big time. For those of us with a little bit of vision deficiency the vary character widths are helpful.

Also, the reduced character width (as a monospaced font inevitable has to be spaced at what the widest chatacters, such as w, require, means that you have to use a smaller font size to get the same amount of info per scroll/line/page whatever, again compromising readability.

Here's a comparison between the posted site, and the same site with the font size bumped up 4px, proportional (just browser default, I didn't cherry pick) and the ridiculously wide line spacing reduced.

Even with all that, the easier to read version is quite a bit more compact. Could likely bump the font size 2 more px and still be smaller.

https://i.imgur.com/DBFI2RU.png