Ask HN: What font do you use to print sensitive passwords? 4 points by brebla 10y ago ↗ HN 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 ago ↗ Look into fonts optimized for source code, like https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Code+ProIf you have control over how the passwords look, you maybe also could adjust their generation to avoid hard-to-distinguish sequences.
[–] coreyp_1 10y ago ↗ alternative: make your password-generation algorithm avoid letters and numbers that are easily confused.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 15.6 ms ] threadIf you have control over how the passwords look, you maybe also could adjust their generation to avoid hard-to-distinguish sequences.