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Vent@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Gork@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • sus@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    monospace means the width of the character is the same, but the width of the visible part of the character is usually not

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• mynachmadarch@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Even if this is lowercase and the dot on the i differentiates then the l would still be a dot.

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  • Vent@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was assuming it was all uppercase

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• blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Verdana > Tahoma > TNR >>>>> Arial, Calibri

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You gonna leave the hound as the only one unranked? That’s no way to treat a dog 😛

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• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sans serif fonts are widely considered easier to read.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can pry the serifs from my cold dead letters

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    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The fall of the Times New Roman Empire

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  • Vent@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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    • IntentionallyAnon@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My chemistry teacher writes Cl (chlorine) as C(whatever symbol you used) so that we don’t think it’s Carbon and Iodine

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      • Xephonian@retrolemmy.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Proper keming would fix that.

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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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