Comment by thristian
2 years ago
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.
Yes, but the dot-zero also has a letter to confuse it with.
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