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Yeah. I read that part, but I didn't know about the idiosyncrasies behind the use of the font, so it wasn't fully clear to me why was important in this industry to heavily rely on a particular font.

Also, read the HN guidelines. Comments like this degrade the quality of the discussions. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It does, but it's easy to underestimate how important this is to the film industry.

As a non-seasoned complete outsider, I thought this part of the article was somehow being dryly facetious or sarcastic or something. Kinda good to have somebody to provide context, actually.

So there were no screenplays before 1956? (When the Courier typeface was created.)

I would think they were typed on manual typewriters (so the tradition of using Courier probably stems from those days).