| ▲ | vivid242 2 hours ago | |
Thanks for the effort! I'm always intrigued by the German FE-Schrift ("fälschungserschwerende Schrift", "more-difficult-to-forge font") chooses shapes for characters that makes it hard for them to be turned into one another (like a 3 into an 8 or so): | ||
| ▲ | rob74 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
What I have always wondered about with FE-Schrift: they painstakingly made all glyphs distinguishable, but completely f'ed it up with V and Y: the "stalk" of the Y is vertical and so short that they're very easy to confuse. They could have made the "stalk" slanted, or even curved like in lowercase "g", and most people would have still recognized it as a "Y"... | ||
| ▲ | Terr_ 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
As a youth in the DOS era, I was always enamored of fonts like OCR-A... there is moderate overlap between the problems of "make it easy to distinguish" and "make it hard to maliciously corrupt". | ||