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For those commenting on the importance of character ambiguity, I completely agree, and offer "DP Sans Mono", a font specifically designed for unambiguous proofreading.

https://www.pgdp.net/wiki/DP_Sans_Mono

https://www.pgdp.net/c/faq/font_sample.php

font download link at https://www.pgdp.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=70714



Given the emphasis on being unambigious, it is interesting that the capital-eye (I) and lower case-ell (l) are the identical glyph in DP Sans Mono.


They are significantly different!


Here is what their own "Font Sample" page [1] shows me:

https://0x0.st/XWE_.png

This is magnified 2x (to show the similarity). Both the sample alphabet and the "character differences" shows uppercase-eye and lowercase-ell as the identical glyph, for DPSansMono.

[1] https://www.pgdp.net/c/faq/font_sample.php


Something is wrong with your browser. Here is what the font sample page actually looks like: https://pikwy.com/web/66ba462a0f6f4a66106b0a6a




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