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A comment on Goldman Sans.

Re:Goldman Sans by na85 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:57PM (#23616669)
Ugh, the font itself seems okay I guess, but I don't understand why, in a font ostensibly designed for legibility, you would choose an open zero in lieu of a slashed or dotted zero.
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Re:Goldman Sans by ebg13 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:58PM (#23616700)
My first thought after reading through to the end was also "After making such a deal about number legibility, that O looks a lot like that 0."
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Re:Goldman Sans by luigibosco on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:22PM (#23619720)
If i were the designer, for absolute clarity i would change any character you type to display as a dollar sign.
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Re:Goldman Sans by CoolGuySteve on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:10PM (#23616924)
Monospace capital letters would also be better for displaying tickers, CUSIPs, expiry dates, etc in columns.
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