Re:Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
by thaumasiotes on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @02:52AM
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> when is it OK for a regular font to be unclear about which character (a zero or 'O') you're looking at?
This is OK virtually 100% of the time, in that there are no circumstances where you'd be confused over which was meant. In contrast, I write 1 and l exactly the same way under most circumstances. That could be pretty annoying if, say, I was doing a geometry problem involving a line named l, since numbers frequently appear in math problems. In fact, I suspect that many other people have had that same problem, since high school geometry textbooks, while they still like to name lines l, use a cursive font for it.
It's very rare for a literary work to feature e.g. one character named Oscar and one named 0scar.
This is OK virtually 100% of the time, in that there are no circumstances where you'd be confused over which was meant. In contrast, I write 1 and l exactly the same way under most circumstances. That could be pretty annoying if, say, I was doing a geometry problem involving a line named l, since numbers frequently appear in math problems. In fact, I suspect that many other people have had that same problem, since high school geometry textbooks, while they still like to name lines l, use a cursive font for it.
It's very rare for a literary work to feature e.g. one character named Oscar and one named 0scar.