Comment by ollien
2 years ago
I'm always really confused about how dotted zeroes became the norm for these fonts. I always confuse them with eights and vastly prefer slashed zeroes. Would love to try this if it had such a variant.
2 years ago
I'm always really confused about how dotted zeroes became the norm for these fonts. I always confuse them with eights and vastly prefer slashed zeroes. Would love to try this if it had such a variant.
There's languages where a slashed circle is a letter, and a slashed zero makes things confusing. Dotted zeroes have much less opportunity for confusion in that direction. I guess type designers could emphasise the convex sides of a dotted zero with the concave sides of an "8" to keep them visually distinct, but I don't know if this font does that.
This is why some fonts like Atkison Hyperlegible use reverse slashed zero, which removes the confusion.
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I figured he was referring to Ø used in Danish.
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Theta
I suggested slash zero in an issue and some rando mentioned dotted zeroes serve the same purpose. So annoying.