Looking for a proportional font with unique characters
28 Mar 2021 16:25:52 UTC
Topic 225123
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There must be a lot of programmers in here. And apparently a fair number of programmers like to use proportional fonts (faster to read). But I've never found one which has unique characters (eye, ell, one), which is an absolute for programming. There must be one out there somewhere. Do I really have to make my own?
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Helvetica? but bar and ell
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Helvetica? but bar and ell similar.
OCR but not so easy on the human eyes
L l - ell, I i - eye, 1 -
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L l - ell, I i - eye, 1 - one, | - pipethese all look unique to me with no confusion, and all are mono-spaced. pretty standard.
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Gary Charpentier
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According to https://fontsnetwork.com/helvetica-font-free/ the capital eye and lower case ell are identical. Is it so hard to realise when a serif must be used? I remember a typing course program on a BBC computer in about 1990. It told me "you've confused I and l". I felt like punching it.
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Oh my god!! This font here,
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Oh my god!! This font here, the one in this forum! It works! Does anyone know what it is?
LlIi, all unique!
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Ian&Steve C. wrote:L l - ell,
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I wanted proportional. Monospaced fonts seem to be fine with identification.
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Peter Hucker wrote: Oh my
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Found it by inspecting the page. Verdana.
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