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The font is Times, not Times New Roman. The original PostScript standard only mandated three font sets: Times, Helvetica, Courier.

Personally when reading long man pages (or any long documents), I greatly prefer a proportional type face over a monospace one like in the terminal. These days, people's hand-written markdown also overuses the backtick syntax to make too many things monospace. Using a proportional font just feels right to me.



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