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> Whatever font Twitter website uses, makes it impossible to visually see the difference. Doesn’t it? When I view the profiles you listed (before that horrible
by bentley 3y ago
> Whatever font Twitter website uses, makes it impossible to visually see the difference.
Doesn’t it? When I view the profiles you listed (before that horrible login wall pops up), the ‘I’ is of the crossbar variety, and the ‘l’ has a finial, making the characters visibly different. In fact, I recall that Twitter started using that font (which also visually distinguishes 0 and O) after the Musk takeover as an anti‐spoofing measure. Spoofed usernames were completely impossible to detect before the font was changed.
- latchkey 3y agoDepends on your system/browser font?
- bentley 3y agoWouldn’t think so, given the intent. Shows up for me on both desktop and mobile. Do you have any local font overrides? Looks like the change happened just over a year ago: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/26/23572746/twitter-changed-font-impersonators https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/26/23572746/twitter-changed-... https://mashable.com/article/twitter-new-font-fights-impersonators https://mashable.com/article/twitter-new-font-fights-imperso...