Le vendredi 14 juillet 2006 à 14:34 +0100, Albert Graham a écrit : > Hi Nicolas, > > I installed this fonts a week or so ago and have found one major problem > which has caused my no end of problems. > > The number 0 is too similar to the number 8 (0808080808) the reason for > this is there is a slash going thru the 0 making it look the same (to > me). this in tern has caused me not to spot lots of typos, e.g. > 192.160.0.1 should have been 192.168.0.1, but on my screen I could > hardly tell the difference until up really close! > > I use a rather large font size (14 pt) so I assume these type of typos > are harder to spot with small font sizes. > > Did you spot the typo in the subject line ? Yes, > Any comments ? The slash is there to distinguish between O and 0 in the monospace font. It's an explicit requirement for a font which may be used in terminals, software IDEs and other technical contexts. In non-monospace families it's possible to get without it, since O is then wider than 0. In monospace it's the only possible choice. I suspect 0 was one of the most audited glyphs when Vera was originally released, as many monospace fonts are totally unusable for tech-speak because they don't distinguish 0 and O (and applications do care about the difference) Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot
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