> The Navy didn't actually do away with all-caps until 2013.
And aviation still is full with it. For better or, in my opinion, worse... but aviation is so stuck of outdated and inconsistent crap in general...
And aviation still is full with it. For better or, in my opinion, worse... but aviation is so stuck of outdated and inconsistent crap in general...
* 466 points, 94 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37517567
From 2019:
* 429 points, 154 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18946601
The header image on the website shows slashed zeroes, but the font preview doesn't, which is unexpected. In fact when previewing in Google Fonts there's barely any visual distinction between uppercase letter O and zero. There's only a very slight difference in width which you actually have to look for. Punctuation isn't centered in their box and leaves so much tailing space the test text `5240N 15:01 .84 8,9` reads like `5240N 15: 01 . 84 8, 9`
These problems don't exist as much in the variable width font, where there is no tailing space in the punctuation and the uppercase Os are rounder.
There's also some weird pinching in the corners of N. 1, l and I are perfectly distinguishable though, so at least it's got that going for it.
For web, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-varian...