Why are BlackBerry Fonts So Bad?

By Paul Kedrosky · Thursday, July 19, 2007 ·
A perhaps picayune question, but why the heck are BlackBerry fonts so bad? I have a new Curve (yes, I have changed phones four times in last four months -- guilty) and you can choose among six fonts, things with unmemorable names like Millbank, Casual, etc.

A better shorthand would be "Ugly", "Ugly", and ... "Ugly". They're all awful. Uniformly so. Why is that? The BBerry has enough resulution to do some decent fonts, and yet it has these MS-DOS rejects.

Anyone had any better luck, or come up with a solution to BBerry fontophobia?
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