[jeroen]

An alternative would be to print IDs using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift, which was specifically designed to make normally similar characters to look different.

[serial_dev]

Good luck distinguishing 0 and O with that font in a random sequence of characters.

The type face you linked is not optimized for humans.

> Its monospaced letters and numbers are slightly disproportionate to prevent easy modification and to improve machine readability.

It's a slightly different issue than what was described in the article (e.g it can't address the cases where IDs are written down).

[namibj]

AFAIK it's designed for non-automatic number plate reading in Germany.