Confusing fonts!

[swaldman]

Just a warning to people after my last half hour of "why doesn't this work":

If you use the Microsoft font "Consolas" for your terminals, you may find that the characters "l" and "1" look almost identical.........

I had a look at some of the other monospaced fonts I have on this system. They all fall into either "those characters look the same" or "much less readable". Consolas is a good font, except for that confusion!

So, I post this to,

• Vent my frustration
• Warn others
• Ask if anybody has a favourite terminal font, and what it is?

Sorry if it's too off-topic :-)

Comments

[stormerider]

Honestly, I stick with Courier New for this kind of reason. It's not the prettiest, but I'll take clarity over pretty.

[swaldman]

I tried Courier New, those characters look even more similar there than they do in Consolas. At least, to my eye when displayed small... ;-)

[stormerider]

I guess I'm used to it because I've been using it for so long. In the lowercase l the lines are all 90 degree angles. In the 1, it's a 45 degree angle at the top.

I think Lucida has a monospaced font, and there are some custom console fonts from programs like TerraTerm and whatnot... vt100 and such.