top | item 40129842 (no title) jeroen | 1 year ago An alternative would be to print IDs using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift, which was specifically designed to make normally similar characters to look different. discuss order hn newest serial_dev|1 year ago Good luck distinguishing 0 and O with that font in a random sequence of characters.The type face you linked is not optimized for humans.> Its monospaced letters and numbers are slightly disproportionate to prevent easy modification and to improve machine readability.It's a slightly different issue than what was described in the article (e.g it can't address the cases where IDs are written down). namibj|1 year ago AFAIK it's designed for non-automatic number plate reading in Germany.
serial_dev|1 year ago Good luck distinguishing 0 and O with that font in a random sequence of characters.The type face you linked is not optimized for humans.> Its monospaced letters and numbers are slightly disproportionate to prevent easy modification and to improve machine readability.It's a slightly different issue than what was described in the article (e.g it can't address the cases where IDs are written down). namibj|1 year ago AFAIK it's designed for non-automatic number plate reading in Germany.
serial_dev|1 year ago
The type face you linked is not optimized for humans.
> Its monospaced letters and numbers are slightly disproportionate to prevent easy modification and to improve machine readability.
It's a slightly different issue than what was described in the article (e.g it can't address the cases where IDs are written down).
namibj|1 year ago