Re: Emacs master: different (ugly) font in org-mode [Windows, macOS]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 21:45:02 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.g0@libero.it>
> Cc: info@protesilaos.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Have you see the screenshots attached here: 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-10/msg00064.html?
> 
> In my opinion Courier is very ugly...

Well, "ugly" is a subjective opinion.  It's okay not to like it, but
it isn't necessarily a good reason to call for any changes in the
defaults.  (I'm aware that it wasn't you who suggested the change.)
Making fixed-pitch use the same font as the default font basically
does away with fixed-pitch as a distinct face.  That makes little
sense to me.  AFAIR, Courier was chosen to make sure the face will be
usable on all Windows versions.  We tried to use other alternative
fonts that are always present on Windows systems, but they all had
problems.

> > have the same font as the default face?  If so, it's a wrong
> > expectation: we deliberately defined the fixed-pitch face to have a
> > different typeface, so that it stands out.
> 
> But Courier is ugly! If I remember, Courier is the default font on Windows 
> and it is ugly! In the past, I tried Lucida Console (better than Courier) and 
> Cascadia Code but even this has its own issues 
> (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-05/msg01950.html)

Then maybe you should use fixed-pitch-serif face instead?