Comment by dotancohen
2 months ago
It's nice, but far from being the most legible font. I notice that the uppercase I is not shown in the example image - and that is one of the hardest letters to get right for a legible font.
Nitpicky, the 0 and O are difficult to distinguish. But for the application, this is not a problem. Other than entering (e.g. wifi) passwords, there are no places where one would be mistaken for the other in a passenger vehicle UI.
You can see it at https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dqRnTESj6k2pgWFWPnzCTQ-768...
Yes, it's small, but "l" has a tail, and "i" is very prominent for what it is so while "I" is a column, it's an unmistakable one.
I want to see the infamous Turkish Quartet "ıiIİ" in action.
That makes only the lowercase L unambiguous, not the uppercase I )). But at that point, for a font intended for text with context, it is surely nitpicking on my part.
My ideal font is a san serif, in which the uppercase I had a small hint of serifs. I live in a fantasy world though, along with my Debian desktop and electric car.
For the intended context, the font is both elegant and unambiguous enough, so I have no qualms with that.
I also tend to like sans serif fonts, and my personal favorite is Inter these days. On the other hand, anything technical (terminal, programming, diagrams, etc.) gets Berkeley Mono as the only choice. Sometimes diagrams and labels get DIN though, if I feel fancy that day.
I also live in a fantasy world which I spoil myself with a Debian desktop, but an ideal car for me is a hybrid one, which I'm going to get in a near-ish future.
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The letter 'O' is quite okay'ish in that it's very wide in that new Volvo font, so you cannot mistake it for the digit '0'. But the digit '0' could definitely be mistaken for the letter 'O'. The only fonts who really fixes that are those using a slashed or a dotted '0' and a wide letter 'O' but they are very few.
When coding I use my own font (a mix of Terminus for most chars, Monaco for some symbols like the @ sign, and then a few fixes for obvious font defects).
It's very hard to find proper fonts.
I'm sure this font is neither intended for writing code or serial numbers.
Proper fonts do exist, but no font is usable in all circumstances.