[malodyets]

Much good there but l and 1 are identical.

[mroche]

I'm really surprised this made it through, it's one of the handful of character sets that require distinct glyphs to prevent confusion/mixups.

[vmladenov]

Not quite, the 1's top serif extends to the left edge. https://postimg.cc/nXMt2qhx Still way too close for comfort.

[queuebert]

To be fair, they did say it was inspired by typewriters, and most old typewriters don't have a '1', so you type a lowercase 'l' instead.

[amelius]

Then don't call it "server". Call it "typewriter".

[rjmorris]

How did they type '2' on those old typewriters?

[irundebian]

That are really old typewriters.

[seanmcdirmid]

I use proportional fonts for coding that don’t really distinguish between 1 and l, it doesn’t seem to matter in practice.

[TacticalCoder]

Yeah it's annoying in several fonts, not just that one. So I simply modify the font I'm using: one thing I do is I remove the lower left horizontal bar from lowercase 'l', that way it cannot be mistaken from a '1'.

Basically changing what's on the left to what's on the right:

    ***         ***
      *           *
      *           *
      *           *
    *****         ***

It's a little trick I've been using since so long I don't even remember since when I'm doing that.

[m463]

> I simply modify the font I'm using

One of those minor nudges in life...

EDIT: and also a monospaced comment on hn to describe it :)

[awelotta]

Do you use [ttx](https://fonttools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ttx.html) for this?

[ezekg]

Love the zero, but agreed.

[m463]

yeah ibm's courier has a horizontal top line for 'l' and a slanted top line for '1'