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OK, I got fed up of confusing Al with AI. Any Sans Serif recommended that has clear distintion of confusable glyphs (1/l/I, 0/O, etc).

Marcos Dione

Thanks for all the suggestions; I forgot to mention that its not for code editing but for reading, mostly on the browser. A new pain point is the rn/m confusion at small points (8-12). Any non code Sans Serif font that makes this really discernible?

@mdione I found that the fonts made for people with dyslexia are just flat-out nice to use, maybe they would be good for you too?

@mdione I’m not dyslexic, but I kind of love OpenDyslexic. Their examples include rn / m opendyslexic.org/about.html

@splendorr definitely the rn/m is solved, but then it looks inconsistent on the thickness; on purpose, I get it, but not sure. Ill keep it on slack see if I get used to it.

@mdione yeah, I get that! I’ve made a couple sites with it, and been surprised how much I like it. It’s not as “aesthetically pleasing” as a stiff sans serif, but as I get older I appreciate legibility more and more :)

@mdione either way, the tight kerning on those letters in almost every “cool” font is really bad

@splendorr you know what I have settled on for now? Comic. Sans. Laugh all you want, it's similarly funky, hated for over use, but so far has a very good readability mark for me. For the rn/m thing, the R has a quasi serif that breaks it, and for O0 the 0 is way slender to the completely round O.

I still have to try many conditions, like non-ASCII sites, non-Latin sites and more, but the experiment is on!