+
+ ;; Monospace Serif is an Emacs invention, intended to work around
+ ;; portability problems when using Courier. It should work well
+ ;; when combined with Monospaced and with other standard fonts.
+ ("Monospace Serif"
+
+ ;; This looks good on GNU/Linux.
+ "Courier 10 Pitch"
+ ;; This looks good on MS-Windows and OS X.
+ "Consolas"
+ ;; This looks good on OS X. "Courier" looks good too, but is
+ ;; jagged on GNU/Linux and so is listed later as "courier".
+ "Courier Std"
+ ;; Although these are anti-aliased, they are a bit faint compared
+ ;; to the above.
+ "FreeMono" "Nimbus Mono L"
+ ;; These are aliased and look jagged.
+ "courier" "fixed"
+ ;; Omit Courier New, as it is the default MS-Windows font and so
+ ;; would look no different, and is pretty faint on other platforms.
+ )
+
+ ;; This is present for backward compatibility.