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[–] [email protected] 113 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

It should be illegal to have a font where Il| are not all easily distinguishable.

lI|

[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Also, O and 0. And there's a special place in Hell for font designers that make 1 look like I

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

but that's literally most default fonts

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

STRAlGHT T0 JAlL Y0U SAY?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

And lose jokes like Al's?

Sure all that fraud sucks, but there are tech fixes (which also have problems - SSL certificates prevent old computers from using the internet without a translating proxy)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Ah yes but that font looks kinda ugly tbh :(

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Hard disagree all my homies fw consolas

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Give me Cascadia Code or give me death!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Careful, the programmers may rise up!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago
 IT IS A PERFECTLY CROMULENT FONT THAT IS EASILY READ BY ALL REAL HUMANS.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Discord solved it by giving l the same tail that t has, I wish more sans-serif fonts did that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Then you have the 1l 1L problem