[Informatics] Testing (fonts)

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Ken, every decade I seem to be called into the office to debug something
and end up explaining the difference between 0 (digit),O (capital o) .. At
this point everybody squints and looks at the screen. One irtitated chap
pointed out that it didn't look all that different on his keyboard (sigh)
..

Reminds me of another story. A student many years ago with a student code
Mar03 or the like, would keep changing format on spreadsheets around the
school into a date field. It was quite frustrating until she finally
graduated and a modicum of cellular peace was restored.

Regards Roland

On 9 May 2017 at 13:20, ken price <kenjprice at gmail.com> wrote:

> At one point in the past I was involved in creating usernames for students
> for a temporary system. We used the first 3 letters of given name followed
> by some digits. Hence Mark might have username Mar123
>
> We had one student with first name, "ilona"
> ( I had to write that in lower case to avoid the problem I am about to
> describe)
> The digits added turned out to be 110
>
> So her username for her was Ilo110
>
> Depending on typeface (and your mail client may use an offending typeface)
> this may appear identical to 110110, LLOLLO or various other permutations
> of 1, L, o and 0
>
> Unfortunately the typeface chosen for the handouts to be given to students
> rendered lowercase L and numeral 1 identically, and upper case letter o and
> numeral zero identically.
>
> It did take some time for the student to figure out the username assigned
> to her. I think she had a good sense of humour about it, but it does
> illustrate the typeface problem.
>
> Ironically we had taken care to make the passwords unambiguous.
>
> Kp
>
>
>
> On Mon, 8 May 2017 at 10:37 pm, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
>
>> Here's an example of choosing designing test data, and how good test data
>> deliberately aims to find the weaknesses and faults of a solution.
>>
>> In this case, *fonts* are being tested by thinking up the most awkward
>> words possible to see if they render properly in that font.
>>
>> https://www.wired.com/2017/05/weird-words-phrases-designers-
>> use-test-fonts/
>>
>> --
>>
>> Mark Kelly
>>
>> mark at vceit.com
>> http://vceit.com
>>
>> Powered by *sans serif.*
>>
>>
>>
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