[geeks] Good fonts (was: Swapping Sparc boxes...)

wa2egp at att.net wa2egp at att.net
Sat Dec 20 03:25:11 CST 2003


> Kurt wrote:
> >
> > I tend to use fonts that tend to differentiate well the difference
> > between a '1' and an 'l'.
> >
>    Any in particular?
>    I found a nice (free!) font for use on my OS X Mac -- that's also for
> WIndows -- named Anonymous that differentiaties ones from ells, zeros from
> ohs, and a few other things. Download & preview here:
> http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymous.html
>    I wonder if I could use this on my Linux laptop?
> >
> > That's a good point though.
> >
>    A smarter person than I came up with it. :7)
> -wde

I looked at the site but the font on this machine, the 1 and l still 
looked alike but the slash through the zero is what I learned in Intro Data
Processing in the 70's.  Must haver been converted somewhat in this machine.
Otherwise, I see no difference.  Probably due to it being Friday and the 
snow storm.
Bob



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