Spyke
lemm.ee

Only if you're using a bad font that doesn't differentiate between I and l

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Gorkreply
lemm.ee

Fixed-width Serif is the only way to go when doing any sort of coding.

However, Comic Sans is a surprisingly decent alternative if you want to use a Sans Serif typeface. The letters are easily distinguishable.

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monospace means the width of the "whole" character is always the same, but the width of the visible part of the character is not (imagine how large the dot would have to be for that to work)

...mm.m.

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kbin.social

Even if this is lowercase and the dot on the i differentiates then the l would still be a dot.

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Ventreply

I was assuming it was all uppercase

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Ventreply
lemm.ee

We should follow Calculus's example and represent all lowercase l's as ℓ

Or just add serifs to I even in sans serif fonts

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lemm.ee

My chemistry teacher writes Cl (chlorine) as C(whatever symbol you used) so that we don’t think it’s Carbon and Iodine

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Last I remember, serif fonts were easier to read on physical mediums, and sans was easier on digital mediums. Never learned why though so, grain of salt and all that

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lemmy.world

They actually did different widths at the start, very impressive. But that tapered off, the W should be much wider.

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here i did the numbers 0-9

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Sotuandusoreply
lemm.ee

Uppercase I is often drawn without serifs, in which case it would be a dot.

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programming.dev

Uppercase I is often drawn without serifs

I have always thought that's a officially wrong way to write the letter. You can't even distinct it from lower case l.

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steboreply
sopuli.xyz

it's uppercase, also j is still more wide than i

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either both uppercase or both lowercase it doesn't matter J and j are both more wide than I and i

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This doesn't specify the font. It could be an uppercase I in a font that doesn't use the top and bottom lines.

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There! In the spine of the dictionary the words are worthless. They are a mere weight pressing against my thoughtlessness.

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