On Sat, 19 Aug 2023 21:19:48 +0200, Christoph K.<christ...@kobenetz.de> wrote:
>Hi all, > >I'm unsatisfied with the default sans font in debian for use in the >graphical user interface (in my case XFCE). > >My main concern with the default sans font (I guess it's Bitsream Vera, >but that doesn't really matter) is the the small 'L' and the capital 'i' >look the same (mostly). > >Everyone who has tried to read unknown characters (e.g. a password >generated automatically oder base64 encoded data) knows what pain it is to >distinguish these characters. > >Could you please recommend a "suitable" sans-serif font that >a) has "proper" 'l' and 'I' characters > I'm probably not the right person to answer, but doesn't the _sans_-serif requirement pretty much make this impossible? It means _without_ serifs, which are (according to wikipedia) "small line or stroke regularly attached to the end of a larger stroke in a letter or symbol within a particular font or family of fonts." Which to me seems like pretty much only way to separate a small 'l' from a big 'i', To me, without the serifs, both those characters are simply a line from top to bottom. But I'll admit that I'm far from an expert on the subject. -- Andreas Rönnquist mailingli...@gusnan.se andr...@ronnquist.net
