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minus-squarelowleveldatalinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down2·6 months agoWhy is l not a dot? I assume this is lower case
minus-squareSotuanduso@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·6 months agoUppercase I is often drawn without serifs, in which case it would be a dot.
minus-squarelowleveldatalinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·6 months ago Uppercase I is often drawn without serifs I have always thought that’s a officially wrong way to write the letter. You can’t even distinct it from lower case l.
minus-squareSotuanduso@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months agoAnd yet it’s used in fonts like Arial.
Why is
lnot a dot? I assume this is lower caseGuess it’s upper case then.
But upper case
iis not a dot?Uppercase I is often drawn without serifs, in which case it would be a dot.
I have always thought that’s a officially wrong way to write the letter. You can’t even distinct it from lower case l.
lI|Il|l|I
And yet it’s used in fonts like Arial.
looks like it’s uppercase
Uppercase L