[nagyf]

Plex's capital "O" and it's 0 (zero) is pretty much indistinguishable.

[BuckyBeaver]

That's unfortunate.

Here's a list of sans-serif fonts I've found that have proper capital "i":

Dejavu-sans-mono (zero clearly different)

Victor-mono (zero clearly different)

Noto-mono (zero clearly different)

Chivo (O and zero different width)

Comme (O and zero different width)

Darker-grotesque (O and zero different width)

Didact-gothic (O and zero different width)

Droid-sans (O and zero different width)

Droid-sans-mono (O and zero different width)

Metrophobic (O and zero different width)

Monda (O and zero different width)

Nobile (O and zero different height)

Noto-sans (O and zero different width)

Sen (O and zero different width)

Luciole (O and zero slightly different width)

IBM Plex (O and zero slightly different width)

Tiresias-infofont (O and zero indistinguishable)

Clear Sans (O and zero indistinguishable)

When I originally posted this list, I provided a link to every one of these fonts. Hacker News "shadow-banned" it without simply telling me that it was flagged, so I spent the time rounding up all the links and creating the list for nothing.

Why do more people not call out Hacker News for its disgraceful treatment of users and deliberate wasting their time? There's no excuse for it. Look at the way they allow you to type out a lengthy question or comment and THEN say, "OH NO, you're posting too fast. Piss off." Instead of simply DISABLING THE REPLY BUTTON.

[DiabloD3]

It's probably because your account is still green. Some of us can see dead comments, so your work isn't gone forever.

However, this seems worthwhile just writing a blog about this.

[_emacsomancer_]

Also Iosevka (which is configurable in fact).

[BuckyBeaver]

That's unfortunate.

One thing I don't like about Plex aesthetically is that the italic faces have right-facing serifs on the bottom of most letters for some reason. It's needlessly inconsistent.

Here's a list of sans-serif fonts I've found that have proper capital "i":

Chivo (O and zero different width): https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Chivo

Clear Sans (O and zero indistinguishable): https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/clear-sans

Comme (O and zero different width): https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/comme

Darker-grotesque (O and zero different width): https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Darker+Grotesque

Dejavu-sans-mono (zero clearly different): https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/dejavu-sans-mono

Didact-gothic (O and zero different width): https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Didact+Gothic

Droid-sans (O and zero different width): https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/droid-sans

Droid-sans-mono (O and zero different width): https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/droid-sans-mono

Luciole (O and zero slightly different width): https://www.luciole-vision.com/luciole-en.html

Metrophobic (O and zero different width): https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Metrophobic

Monda (O and zero different width): https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Monda

Nobile (O and zero different height): https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Monda

Noto-mono (zero clearly different): https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+Mono

Noto-sans (O and zero different width): https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans

Sen (O and zero different width): https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Sen

Tiresias-infofont (O and zero indistinguishable): https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/tiresias-infofont

Victor-mono (zero clearly different): https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/

[mark_story]

Jet Brains Mono https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/ is another contender. It has a crossbar I, a dotted 0, and easily distinguishable i, 1, l.

[jwuphysics]

Thanks for compiling this list, and for what it's worth, I don't think this comment was shadow-banned despite what you mentioned in your other reply.

[DragonMaus]

You can add my favourite font to that list:

Fantasque Sans Mono (zero clearly different): https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans

[mechanicum]

They don’t have to be. The entire Plex family has plain, slashed and dotted zero glyph variants.