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Fonts were the lowercase L, numeral 1, and uppercase i look very similar
There should be a rule against this for all font designers.
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lI1
This font has it, but not as badly as others.
If I ever design a sans-serif I'm going to make sure the lowercase L can be told apart from the uppercase I (e.g. putting serifs on the I, a tail/shear on the l, something)
In my handwritten sans-serif print style, I put serifs on the I, and often on the 1. Especially the top serif.
Then again I know someone whose 1 was so heavily top-serif'd that it looked like a 7.
I put serifs on my I. I used to put top and bottom serifs on my 1s, but my teacher told me that made him confuse them for 7s/Is, so I stopped.
I usually don't bother unless I think whoever's reading it might not be easily capable of telling the difference.
Context matters a lot, people. It's why Arabic speakers rarely feel the need to write vowels in their language.