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Passwords are displayed in a font that makes it hard to identify certain characters

Open Kritzefitz opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Passwords are displayed in a proportional sans serif font both in the display field as well as in the edit input field. This makes it really hard to identify certain characters such as lowercase L or uppercase i, as shown by the following screenshots.

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Describe the solution you'd like

Passwords should be displayed in a monospace font. This usually makes it possible to identify each individual character. This should also affect the input field for editing passwords.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Using a proportional font with clear visual separation for each character would also be an option. But most monospace fonts are consciously designed to do so, so they should be the easiest solution.

As a workaround it is currently possible to paste the password into some other application that uses a monospace font (such as a terminal). But this is of course a very clunky solution.

Additional context

This has apparently been implemented in the past in ce4cbde592fc6a57bbacf85e963432b53ab9bd33 but later reverted in 0595f17a71882e8884bfc638642873a44049be66.

Kritzefitz avatar Dec 17 '21 13:12 Kritzefitz

worth mention one of the possible solution in #514

ilardm avatar Dec 24 '21 06:12 ilardm