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Lowercase L and uppercase i in sans-serif fonts looking alike

glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
edited 2011-03-16 22:17:55 in General
Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
l don't have to expIain this one, do l?

Comments

  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    glenmagusharvey

    gIennmagusharvey

    ....huh.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    ^Did you miss what happened earlier?
  • DYREDYRE
    And, if you allow unicode characters (which I dunno if this forum allows in usernames, though probably not), you get things like Ε looking exactly the same as E in any font, despite being different characters.
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    edited 2011-03-16 22:22:03
    What's funny is that just before the fake GMH showed up, I switched my stylesheet for this site from DejaVu Sans (where the "l" and "I" look similar, but not the same) to Droid Sans (where the "l" and "I" don't
    look the same at all, as seen from my screenshot in the rules thread).

  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    DYRE

    I AM SORRY FOR NOT LIKING THINGS YOU LIKE AND GETTING MAD AT YOU FOR IT.
  • DYREDYRE
    ^ -expected the E in DYRE to be an epsilon rather than an E-

    -was disappointed when it wasn't-
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    Oddly enough, in Droid Sans the "E" and the epsilon do look slightly different, but not enough that I would have noticed if I hadn't had them to compare.
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    There isn't a difference, in the default font. Not that I can tell, at least.
  • DebossDeboss
    Yet another reason why the written language sucks.
  • DonZabuDonZabu

    Totally. Way too easy to confuse one thing for another.

    Now THIS. THIS shit is where it's at:

  • AnonusAnonus
    Not all sans-serif faces have lookalike "l" and "I" characters. Prominently, Interstate, Whitney, and the various incarnations of DIN 1451 do not. The "l" has a "shear" atop it in those first two, while in DIN it has a tail.
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    IIRC, Highway Gothic's "l" has a "shear" (which I guess is obvious, given that Interstate's does), and ClearviewHwy's has a tail.

    (What? It's always time for a roads derail.)
  • AnonusAnonus
    Oh, those too. Signage faces (or ones that have their roots in signage) need to distinguish, very much so.

    (For legibility's sake, I think tails are better)
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Me too.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    By the way, take a look at the first post in this thread.
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    I actually noticed that last night, 'cause of my custom CSS thingy (and 'cause it's the most predictable joke for this thread), but I didn't wanna spoil it.
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