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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: yester64 on Sat, 13 July 2013, 20:47:02

Title: pondering about fonts
Post by: yester64 on Sat, 13 July 2013, 20:47:02

Hi, i am looking for a nice font that has a slash in zero's.
I just think that this is the best way to not get confused and to guess if its an O oder 0. Anyone using such a font for browsing?

Thanks

Title: Re: pondering about fonts
Post by: vun on Sat, 13 July 2013, 23:57:47

I just noticed that my IRC font does that; Consolas. If you want a different style I could always have a look through my font fan and see if I spot any.

Title: Re: pondering about fonts
Post by: yester64 on Sun, 14 July 2013, 12:00:57

I think i tried Consolas. Nice font but it makes the sentencing much larger. I assume its more of a typewriter font following the 2 spacing rule.
All i want is the 0 with a slash. Actually, it makes me wonder why zeros look like Ohs.
If you work with a console it makes it much easier to be sure to see a zero as a zero.
I have seen on the mozilla page that they have a book font which supposedly does have it. Need to try that.

Thanks anyway. :)

Title: Re: pondering about fonts
Post by: damorgue on Sun, 14 July 2013, 12:02:49

I think it is typical for console fonts, and even more so monospace fonts. Since the O and 0 are the same dimensions in monospaced fonts, they are more likely to want to distinguish them and more likely to add the extra feature to the 0. I would sort for monspaced ones and you will find plenty.

Title: Re: pondering about fonts
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 14 July 2013, 17:19:00

Inconsolata, Monaco, HyperFont, Pro Font Windows, Driod Sans Mono Py, Anonymous (this one has backwards slash), Chicago.

All these have slashes through 0 (most are fixed-width).

Title: Re: pondering about fonts
Post by: ___q on Sun, 14 July 2013, 18:23:53

The "Trim" font at https://code.google.com/p/i3project/wiki/Fonts may be something like what you want.

In general, if you find proportional fonts people use for programming, they will tend to have distinguishable 0 vs O, 1 vs l vs I, etc.  I think slashing the zero is far more common on monospace fonts, though, since in most porportional fonts O and 0 are very different widths.