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by serial_dev 789 days ago
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).

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