Am Sat, 19 Aug 2023 20:16:25 +0000 schrieb "Russell L. Harris" <russ...@rlharris.org>:
> I am concerned primarily with the distinction between numeral 1 and > lower case L. Of course, 'l' and 'I' was just the most prominent example. Usually I look at 1lI| (numeral one, small 'L' capital 'L', Pipe) > And I loathe fonts in which the numerals 3, 5, 6, and 9 > are not radically different. Interesting point. Didn't pay much attention to these numerals, yet. > Back in the 1970's, I ran across a detailed study of character shape > with respect to the problem of readability after photographic > reduction (microfilm and microfische) in hand-lettered engineering > drawings (24in x 36in). Reading that study brought about a change in > my own handwriting. The study was by a oil company; perhaps it was > Shell Oil. That would be really interesting to read. Do you have any (more) hints on how to find that study? Do you remember what change you did in your handwriting? > For Debian, I searched by opening EDIT > PREFERENCES > APPEARANCE in a > terminal. I currently am using `go mono regular'. But `liberation > mono regular' looks promising. I do admit that I wasn't specific enough in my first question. When I wrote "sans serif", I meant "a not serif font". Actually I wasn't looking for a monospace font either (but didn't state that explicitly). For now "IBM Plex" seems to do a good job. Thanks, Christoph
