ENHANCEMENT/SUGGESTION Enhance typography for better (password) legibility

[ldexterldesign]

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As title

I'm regularly confused, specifically on mobile where it's not as easy as desktop to resolve, about whether it's a "1" (i.e. numeral one) or a "l" (i.e. lowercase L) 😕

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Personally, I just think they're too similar - perhaps there's a font with extra glyphs (e.g. I always underline my numerals when I write them to give some additional affordance)..?

If you're reading and:

• agree, then please vote up (e.g. +1, like), or;
• disagree, then please vote down (e.g. -1, dislike) - I'd love to know why?

Welcome feedback/input

Hope this helps

Sincerely

[perry-mitchell]

Hi @ldexterldesign - I personally don't have any issues reading passwords in the mobile font, but can understand that having better typography would reduce mistakes and frustrations for users with very complex passwords (or those with ambiguous characters like in your example).

Right now I've not installed any custom font, so I'd need to do so for it to work on mobile. Firstly, I'd need to find a font that allows for easy reading. Honestly I doubt there are too many that are more easily readable over the built-in monospace font we're using now, but I'd like to see suggestions. Colours can help differentiate digits from alphabetic characters, but IiLl is still an issue.

Overall it'd be bit of work, so the solution should be worthwhile in terms of improvement imo.

[ldexterldesign]

Thanks for reply

All good

Please leave this issue open and see if it attracts popularity

In the meantime I will try and avoid said characters (i.e. 1iIlL)!

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