Re:Goldman Sans
by paxys on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:13PM
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Weird that they highlight its numerical use but there's no effort to disambiguate 0 from O.
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Re:Goldman Sans
by logicallee on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:48PM
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I read the comments here first and expected the O and 0 to be indistinguishable, but for me it's prety easy to tell.
See for yourself - I flipped a 0 and an O on this image, can you tell where? https://imgur.com/a/3hcg3zH
I see the O flipped to 0, but the 0 flipped to O doesn't look out of place to me.
Re:Goldman Sans
by logicallee on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @08:12PM
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>I see the O flipped to 0, but the 0 flipped to O doesn't look out of place to me.
real question - so how did you know there was an 0 flipped to O as well?
Re:Goldman Sans
by logicallee on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:30PM
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yeah. pretty easy, right?
Re:Goldman Sans
by stickfigure on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:43PM
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Damn you Poe's Law
Re:Goldman Sans
by logicallee on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:18PM
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not sarcastic.
(For me it's easy but I prepared the modified image, so not blinded - hence my question that it's easy, right.)
I honestly can't. And in any case, the real test is the individual characters in isolation.
Not a good choice for a programming or console font, then...
A slash or dot for disambiguating zeroes would add a lot of noise visually especially in dense displays. Perhaps that's why.
Re:Goldman Sans
by pranavjoneja on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:01PM
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I agree, a typeface for numerical use should pay attention to that! I like the typeface used in new versions of JetBrains IDEs like Pycharm. There's special attention paid to disambiguating 0 from O and also ; from : and many other details!
Re:Goldman Sans
by pedrogpimenta on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:30PM
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Oh no.