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HPsquaredlast Wednesday at 10:52 PM2 repliesview on HN

Come to think of it, I vs l vs 1 vs | is one advantage of serif fonts.


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pmontralast Thursday at 6:49 AM

Yes and I use the Atkinson font in my emacs (for code) which is proportional and sans serif except for those characters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_Hyperlegible

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VerifiedReportslast Thursday at 5:57 AM

The crossbars on the capital "i" are not serifs.

But sans-serif fonts are certainly the prime offenders of rendering a lower-case L in place of the capital "i".

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