Consolas Font Now Being Used for Confirmation Number
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Consolas Font Now Being Used for Confirmation Number
United is now using Consolas font to display confirmation number on the View Current Reservation page. Consolas is a monospaced (non-proportional) typeface which lessens visual confusion between the number 1 and the letter I, or the number 0 and the letter O. It's a change that is welcomed by this stable genius.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas
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United is now using Consolas font to display confirmation number on the View Current Reservation page. Consolas is a monospaced (non-proportional) typeface which lessens visual confusion between the number 1 and the letter I, or the number 0 and the letter O. It's a change that is welcomed by this stable genius.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas
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United is now using Consolas font to display confirmation number on the View Current Reservation page. Consolas is a monospaced (non-proportional) typeface which lessens visual confusion between the number 1 and the letter I, or the number 0 and the letter O. It's a change that is welcomed by this stable genius.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas
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Yes, they do use 0 and O. (At least UA). They're not interchangeable haha, I've learned the hard way once.
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They like using the letter O because its phonetic equivalent is Oscar.
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i'm for the change. it's one of many recently introduced to sites i frequent. amazon is experimenting with a new typeface with serifs (they call it "bookerly"), and i even had google desktop search results load today in the typeface that has been introduced to their maps app for android.