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Ask HN: What font do you use to print sensitive passwords?

4 points| brebla | 10 years ago

From time to time I have to assign complex passwords and give hard copies to users. Notepad font routinely confuses them. They mistake a lowercase l for a 1, etc. Which font is clearest?

2 comments

order

coreyp_1|10 years ago

alternative: make your password-generation algorithm avoid letters and numbers that are easily confused.