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ahmedfromtunis on Sept 17, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

My guess is that the other fonts do it to differentiate the slash zero and the Norwegian letter Ø.

If that's true then AH's choice seems counterintuitive to me.

notatoad on Sept 17, 2024 [–]

to be clear, atkinson hyperlegible slashes the zero in the opposite direction to the Ø.

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Atkinson+Hyperlegible?prev...

ahmedfromtunis on Sept 17, 2024 | [–]

Oh, ok. Thanks for pointing that out. In that case, I think their choice was justified to avoid confusion.

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