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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Only if you're using a bad font that doesn't differentiate between I and l

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fixed-width Serif is the only way to go when doing any sort of coding.

However, Comic Sans is a surprisingly decent alternative if you want to use a Sans Serif typeface. The letters are easily distinguishable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

monospace means the width of the "whole" character is always the same, but the width of the visible part of the character is not (imagine how large the dot would have to be for that to work)

...mm.m.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Even if this is lowercase and the dot on the i differentiates then the l would still be a dot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I was assuming it was all uppercase

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sans serif fonts are widely considered easier to read.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can pry the serifs from my cold dead letters

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

The fall of the Times New Roman Empire

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We should follow Calculus's example and represent all lowercase l's as ℓ

Or just add serifs to I even in sans serif fonts

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My chemistry teacher writes Cl (chlorine) as C(whatever symbol you used) so that we don’t think it’s Carbon and Iodine

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Proper keming would fix that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Last I remember, serif fonts were easier to read on physical mediums, and sans was easier on digital mediums. Never learned why though so, grain of salt and all that

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Verdana > Tahoma > TNR >>>>> Arial, Calibri

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You gonna leave the hound as the only one unranked? That's no way to treat a dog 😛

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

here i did the numbers 0-9

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They actually did different widths at the start, very impressive. But that tapered off, the W should be much wider.

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

And M a bit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

W for WUMBO

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Forget the front, what the hell is that kerning man

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Pixar lamp. Enough said.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why is l not a dot? I assume this is lower case

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guess it’s upper case then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But upper case i is not a dot?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uppercase I is often drawn without serifs, in which case it would be a dot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Uppercase I is often drawn without serifs

I have always thought that's a officially wrong way to write the letter. You can't even distinct it from lower case l.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And yet it's used in fonts like Arial.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

looks like it's uppercase

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Uppercase L

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who does a lowercase j with a line?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's uppercase, also j is still more wide than i

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

either both uppercase or both lowercase it doesn't matter J and j are both more wide than I and i

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This doesn't specify the font. It could be an uppercase I in a font that doesn't use the top and bottom lines.

[–] fellowmortal 2 points 1 year ago

There! In the spine of the dictionary the words are worthless. They are a mere weight pressing against my thoughtlessness.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago