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Maybe for the same reasons you offered: readability and easy to look at.

Some modern monospaced fonts are rather nice to look at, Consolas for example, and the ability to distinguish between 0O1l easily is an advantage for some fonts without having weird letter spacings.

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Don't get me wrong, I love Consolas, but having all of the letters be the same width doesn't make sometthing more readable. When was the last time you saw a book or newspaper in Courier New?

When I started my non-monospaced experiment 2 years ago, I, thought I might have trouble differentiating between 0O1Il, etc. but that has never been a problem in practice.

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