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Way too many stock monospace fonts make it hard to distinguish between lowercase ell, capital eye, numeral one, and pipe. All of those except pipe should have d
by PhasmaFelis 8y ago
Way too many stock monospace fonts make it hard to distinguish between lowercase ell, capital eye, numeral one, and pipe. All of those except pipe should have different serifs.
(I feel like this is a problem even in proportional fonts, incidentally. I like sans-serif as much as the next guy, but if the word "Ill" looks like chicken-scratches then something is wrong.)
- kleiba 8y agoAnd yet, as I mentioned in my original post, I've been coding and using the shell etc. for decades and never ran into that problem in practice. I would bet that more production time has been wasted on a global scale with discussions about and fiddling with font options than with a wrong l, I, 1, | in a place where it shouldn't be.