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Ask HN: What font do you use to print sensitive passwords?
From time to time I have to assign complex passwords and give hard copies to users. Notepad font routinely confuses them. They mistake a lowercase l for a 1, etc. Which font is clearest?
- detaro 10y agoLook into fonts optimized for source code, like https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Code+Pro https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Code+Pro If you have control over how the passwords look, you maybe also could adjust their generation to avoid hard-to-distinguish sequences.
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- coreyp_1 10y agoalternative: make your password-generation algorithm avoid letters and numbers that are easily confused.