in critical applications where numbers and letters are together, this has always been a big annoyance and for that reason, I like the zeroes to be REAL explicit, with a slash, so there is no question. Profont isn't really fancy, but is designed to be explicit. Free, open source Truetype. I haven't seen an installed font do this, except I have a vague memory of Courier having slashed zeroes at one point. SEE A SAMPLE HERE <http://houseofcubes.com/coding/profont.png>
As far as mixed numbers and characters in passwords, it's actually advantageous for security to do that, just hard for people. 2009/1/11 Scott Rossi <[email protected]> > >> The Monaco font on Macs clearly shows the differences between a zero > >> and the letter "O" and the number one and lower case "L", etc. > >> What would the equivalent font on Windows and/or Linux be? > > I was curious about this, so I just did a run though of all installed fonts > on a Vista system and was surprised to find nothing that qualified. For > the > zero character, Consolas (not sure if this standard) was an option, but not > a very good for one. When you see the characters next to each other you > can > kind of make out the difference, but apart I can see there being confusion. > > If you need the character distinction for registration/password entry, I > believe the standard is to avoid mixing numbers and characters, at least in > the same block of text. If you need the distinction for other reasons, you > may need to research a 3rd party font an install it yourself. > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- Stephen Barncard ------------------------- San Francisco _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
