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Normal readers know that capital "i" has crossbars on it. Why design an intentionally ambiguous font? There is only downside to it.
by VerifiedReports 10mo ago
Normal readers know that capital "i" has crossbars on it.
Why design an intentionally ambiguous font? There is only downside to it.
- ajross 10mo agoYou lost this fight more than a century ago. Helvetica and almost all related grotesque fonts lack a serif on "I", and dominate modern typography. You see them everywhere, on every device. Pull your phone out your pocket and see if you can see "crossbars" on the I. They're not there, and never have been. And people like it this way! So that's why we design fonts like this.
- VerifiedReports 10mo ago"And people like it this way!" Oh really? People have a mechanism for reporting that? And they'll turn away from products using fonts with properly-demarcated capitals? Ladies and gentlemen, witness the "argumentum ad populum" fallacy.