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by fkyoureadthedoc 260 days ago
Listen brother, some guy said "because this is how it is, obviously that's because it's better". All I did is say idk about that, and gave a simple counter example.

And we're talking about a monospaced font for your terminal. To me, that's more akin to technical drawing than publishing a book.

In my experience technical drawings often use all caps, which have no ascenders/descenders, and you googling specifically to find a counter example doesn't change that. NASA, for example, https://s3vi.ndc.nasa.gov/ssri-kb/static/resources/NASA%20GS...