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I’m super basic regarding fonts and just look for I l 1. If you don’t absolutely nail those in fixed width then get lost.

Edit: I just noticed they doubled those up at the end. Nice touch

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Yeah, nice touch. It shows they care.

To the parent, not snark, but the font is open source. You can add those ligatures!

Yep, that’s even more important than ligatures. :)

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This kind of string should be in all the basic font examples

For sure, especially for fonts geared towards programmers and technical uses where numbers and symbols matter a great deal. A person could probably figure out that he110 is "hello" but as identifiers, he110 and hello are not interchangeable.

yeah, that's where all those huge font cataloging websites could shine (and also allow you to filter fonts based on this, eg, all zeroes should have some mark in the middle not be confused with the letter O), yet they settle on some bland pangram

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