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Back in the old days, it was pretty standard that the letter "i" was distinguished with serifs, but (and I found this perplexing) there was a lot of argument wh
by DrScump 10y ago
Back in the old days, it was pretty standard that the letter "i" was distinguished with serifs, but (and I found this perplexing) there was a lot of argument whether zero or "O" should have a slash. It was rather critical in the old, old days of filling out keypunch sheets.
- patrick_haply 10y agoI started adding serifs to my writing back in engineering school to help me decipher my own equations. I some moments where I couldn't figure out if I had written "+t" or "t+", or "is that a 2 or a z?!", and realized I had to create a script for myself and slow down a bit when writing. Particularly troublesome characters that I remember were: t vs + u vs v 2 vs z s vs 5 i (imaginary vs subscript marker) g vs q (might seem silly, but prior to that, my handwriting didn't distinguish between them much) o/O vs 0 (zero gets a slash, but never had situations where I was dealing with upper and lowercase o at the same time) d vs ∂