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Plex's capital "O" and it's 0 (zero) is pretty much indistinguishable.

• mechanicum 4y ago
  They don’t have to be. The entire Plex family has plain, slashed and dotted zero glyph variants.
• BuckyBeaver 4y ago
  That's unfortunate. One thing I don't like about Plex aesthetically is that the italic faces have right-facing serifs on the bottom of most letters for some reason. It's needlessly inconsistent. Here's a list of sans-serif fonts I've found that have proper capital "i": Chivo (O and zero different width): https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Chivo https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Chivo Clear Sans (O and zero indistinguishable): https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/clear-sans https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/clear-sans Comme (O and zero different width): https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/comme https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/comme Darker-grotesque (O and zero different width): https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Darker+Grotesque https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Darker+Grotesque Dejavu-sans-mono (zero clearly different): https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/dejavu-sans-mono https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/dejavu-sans-mono Didact-gothic (O and zero different width): https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Didact+Gothic https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Didact+Gothic Droid-sans (O and zero different width): https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/droid-sans https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/droid-sans Droid-sans-mono (O and zero different width): https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/droid-sans-mono https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/droid-sans-mono Luciole (O and zero slightly different width): https://www.luciole-vision.com/luciole-en.html https://www.luciole-vision.com/luciole-en.html Metrophobic (O and zero different width): https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Metrophobic https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Metrophobic Monda (O and zero different width): https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Monda https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Monda Nobile (O and zero different height): https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Monda https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Monda Noto-mono (zero clearly different): https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+Mono https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+Mono Noto-sans (O and zero different width): https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans Sen (O and zero different width): https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Sen https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Sen Tiresias-infofont (O and zero indistinguishable): https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/tiresias-infofont https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/tiresias-infofont Victor-mono (zero clearly different): https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/ https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/
  • jwuphysics 4y ago
    Thanks for compiling this list, and for what it's worth, I don't think this comment was shadow-banned despite what you mentioned in your other reply.
  • mark_story 4y ago
    Jet Brains Mono https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/ https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/ is another contender. It has a crossbar I, a dotted 0, and easily distinguishable i, 1, l.
  • DragonMaus 4y ago
    You can add my favourite font to that list: Fantasque Sans Mono (zero clearly different): https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans
• BuckyBeaver 4y ago
  That's unfortunate. Here's a list of sans-serif fonts I've found that have proper capital "i": Dejavu-sans-mono (zero clearly different) Victor-mono (zero clearly different) Noto-mono (zero clearly different) Chivo (O and zero different width) Comme (O and zero different width) Darker-grotesque (O and zero different width) Didact-gothic (O and zero different width) Droid-sans (O and zero different width) Droid-sans-mono (O and zero different width) Metrophobic (O and zero different width) Monda (O and zero different width) Nobile (O and zero different height) Noto-sans (O and zero different width) Sen (O and zero different width) Luciole (O and zero slightly different width) IBM Plex (O and zero slightly different width) Tiresias-infofont (O and zero indistinguishable) Clear Sans (O and zero indistinguishable) When I originally posted this list, I provided a link to every one of these fonts. Hacker News "shadow-banned" it without simply telling me that it was flagged, so I spent the time rounding up all the links and creating the list for nothing. Why do more people not call out Hacker News for its disgraceful treatment of users and deliberate wasting their time? There's no excuse for it. Look at the way they allow you to type out a lengthy question or comment and THEN say, "OH NO, you're posting too fast. Piss off." Instead of simply DISABLING THE REPLY BUTTON.
  • _emacsomancer_ 4y ago
    Also Iosevka (which is configurable in fact).
  • DiabloD3 4y ago
    It's probably because your account is still green. Some of us can see dead comments, so your work isn't gone forever. However, this seems worthwhile just writing a blog about this.
    • BuckyBeaver 4y ago