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Use unambiguous typeface

Open hijackeel opened this issue 3 years ago • 4 comments

Missing feature

When viewing passwords on the display:

  • Zero and capital oh look the same.
  • Lowercase ell and capital aye look the same, and similar to the numeral one.

Justification

It is very frustrating when entering a long randomly generated password manually on a device.

Workarounds

  1. Open Multicute.
  2. Download password.
  3. Copy to text editor.
  4. Change font.
  5. Take photo on phone.
  6. Carry phone over to device.

hijackeel avatar Jul 14 '21 02:07 hijackeel

This shouldn't need a thumbs up. Using a non-ambiguous typeface for something as important as this should be taken as standard. This isn't an enhancement request, it's a bug report.

MaplesThroughWindows avatar Apr 19 '22 16:04 MaplesThroughWindows

can't agreee more. imo the small L should have a small tail after it like several monospace fonts offer, equall the big i should have 2 bars top/bottom also a feature of many mono fonts. also in many fonts the big o is just wider than the zero, although if we just wanna make a mono space font the zero could be filled up with something, be it a dot, a slash or whatever really

My1 avatar Feb 17 '23 13:02 My1

"0O1Il" Even in this example font Il or is it lI look the same. The 5 characters need to be visually unique. I grew up with a slash through the zero 0, capital i (I), lower case L (l) and the number one (1) should also be distinct.

CGuy-1 avatar May 30 '23 00:05 CGuy-1

I fully share the sentiment by the other commentors.

Please consider commitmono (I am not affiliated with the authors!) https://commitmono.com/

hjkiefer avatar Oct 27 '23 06:10 hjkiefer