Question for the Font Freaks
We’re on the same page 51/52 times.Is there a reasonable excuse for why capital “I” and lower-case “l” look indentical in Helvetica?
Discuss.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. It had to be asked.
People, for normal copy or prose Helvetica is the bee’s knees. When it’s time to communicate anything in which there may be ambiguity concerning these two letters, though, use a different font!
I get so ticked when someone emails me something like a serial number in Helvetica.
Likewise for fonts that have identical zero and capital “O”.
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(PSA: I’ll mention this because it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize it myself: copy-n-paste into Notebook or anything else that defaults to a serif font is a quick fix when receiving such things.)
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