top | item 11548885 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 hn newest detaro|10 years ago Look into fonts optimized for source code, like https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Code+ProIf you have control over how the passwords look, you maybe also could adjust their generation to avoid hard-to-distinguish sequences. coreyp_1|10 years ago alternative: make your password-generation algorithm avoid letters and numbers that are easily confused. unknown|10 years ago [deleted]
detaro|10 years ago Look into fonts optimized for source code, like https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Code+ProIf you have control over how the passwords look, you maybe also could adjust their generation to avoid hard-to-distinguish sequences.
coreyp_1|10 years ago alternative: make your password-generation algorithm avoid letters and numbers that are easily confused.
detaro|10 years ago
If you have control over how the passwords look, you maybe also could adjust their generation to avoid hard-to-distinguish sequences.
coreyp_1|10 years ago
unknown|10 years ago
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