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Old Jul 12, 2018, 10:24 am
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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
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Old Jul 12, 2018, 10:31 am
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Is that what AA uses? It's weird when I clicked on the wiki link, I immediately thought it looked like what I see on AA physical passes.
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Old Jul 12, 2018, 10:31 am
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Originally Posted by RNE
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
Good for readability, but it shows my PNR a lot smaller than other relevant text near it...

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Old Jul 12, 2018, 3:35 pm
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Originally Posted by RNE
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
Do airlines use both O and 0 in locator numbers? It's very hard to distinguish (and I actually do look carefully enough), yet I've never had a problem typing 0 when such appears - perhaps they treat either O or 0 interchangably?
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Old Jul 12, 2018, 3:40 pm
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Do airlines use both O and 0 in locator numbers? It's very hard to distinguish (and I actually do look carefully enough), yet I've never had a problem typing 0 when such appears - perhaps they treat either O or 0 interchangably?
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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Old Jul 12, 2018, 3:59 pm
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Originally Posted by laxmillenial
Yes, they do use 0 and O. (At least UA). They're not interchangeable haha, I've learned the hard way once.
0h oh....

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Old Jul 12, 2018, 4:13 pm
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Originally Posted by laxmillenial
Yes, they do use 0 and O. (At least UA). They're not interchangeable haha, I've learned the hard way once.
I do not believe this is correct. I think UA only uses 0 (numeric) and not O (alpha) for record locators.
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Old Jul 12, 2018, 4:15 pm
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I do not believe this is correct. I think UA only uses 0 (numeric) and not O (alpha) for record locators.
I thought you might be correct, but I searched my email and did find one with O (alpha) from November of last year. Many more 0 (numeric) though.
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Old Jul 12, 2018, 4:49 pm
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I just looked at my reservation for Sunday, and it has both a 0 and an O in it. I appreciate the change in font. It makes it clear.
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Old Jul 12, 2018, 5:52 pm
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They like using the letter O because its phonetic equivalent is Oscar.
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Old Jul 12, 2018, 6:02 pm
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I hate this font, I hate this font, I hate this font.

Now this thread is complete.
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Old Jul 12, 2018, 6:09 pm
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The quick Consolas font jumped over the lazy serif font.

But it can be a bit small to easily read.

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Old Jul 12, 2018, 6:29 pm
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I hate this font, I hate this font, I hate this font.
I agree. It's a poorly designed font.
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I prefer source code pro
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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.
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