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Ask HN: What font do you use to print sensitive passwords?

4 pointsby breblaabout 9 years ago
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?

2 comments

detaroabout 9 years ago
Look into fonts optimized for source code, like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;fonts&#x2F;specimen&#x2F;Source+Code+Pro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;fonts&#x2F;specimen&#x2F;Source+Code+Pro</a><p>If you have control over how the passwords look, you maybe also could adjust their generation to avoid hard-to-distinguish sequences.
coreyp_1about 9 years ago
alternative: make your password-generation algorithm avoid letters and numbers that are easily confused.