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minus-square@Vent@lemm.eelinkfedilink68•1 year agoOnly if you’re using a bad font that doesn’t differentiate between I and l
minus-square@Gork@lemm.eelinkfedilink24•1 year agoFixed-width Serif is the only way to go when doing any sort of coding. However, Comic Sans is a surprisingly decent alternative if you want to use a Sans Serif typeface. The letters are easily distinguishable.
minus-squaremynachmadarchlinkfedilink9•edit-21 year agoEven if this is lowercase and the dot on the i differentiates then the l would still be a dot.
minus-squareBlanketsWithSmallpoxlinkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-21 year agoVerdana > Tahoma > TNR >>>>> Arial, Calibri
minus-square@Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•1 year agoYou gonna leave the hound as the only one unranked? That’s no way to treat a dog 😛
minus-square@disguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•1 year agoSans serif fonts are widely considered easier to read.
minus-square@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agoYou can pry the serifs from my cold dead letters
minus-square@Vent@lemm.eelinkfedilink3•1 year agoWe should follow Calculus’s example and represent all lowercase l’s as ℓ Or just add serifs to I even in sans serif fonts
minus-square@IntentionallyAnon@lemm.eelinkfedilink4•1 year agoMy chemistry teacher writes Cl (chlorine) as C(whatever symbol you used) so that we don’t think it’s Carbon and Iodine
minus-square@PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilink2•1 year agoLast I remember, serif fonts were easier to read on physical mediums, and sans was easier on digital mediums. Never learned why though so, grain of salt and all that
Only if you’re using a bad font that doesn’t differentiate between I and l
Fixed-width Serif is the only way to go when doing any sort of coding.
However, Comic Sans is a surprisingly decent alternative if you want to use a Sans Serif typeface. The letters are easily distinguishable.
Even if this is lowercase and the dot on the
idifferentiates then thelwould still be a dot.I was assuming it was all uppercase
Verdana > Tahoma > TNR >>>>> Arial, Calibri
You gonna leave the hound as the only one unranked? That’s no way to treat a dog 😛
Sans serif fonts are widely considered easier to read.
You can pry the serifs from my cold dead letters
The fall of the Times New Roman Empire
We should follow Calculus’s example and represent all lowercase l’s as ℓ
Or just add serifs to I even in sans serif fonts
My chemistry teacher writes Cl (chlorine) as C(whatever symbol you used) so that we don’t think it’s Carbon and Iodine
Last I remember, serif fonts were easier to read on physical mediums, and sans was easier on digital mediums. Never learned why though so, grain of salt and all that