Open Vormgear opened 4 years ago
I don't think I buy the premise that they are currently indistinguishable. In fact in side by side comparisons they are clearly different and for example placing a zero in an upper case context is clearly wrong.
Adding a slashed or dotted ‘0’ as a stylistic alternate is certainly something I'd entertain and anybody willing to contribute this as a PR is encouraged to go ahead, I'll help with the details of getting in merged.
...but no I don't think the default glyph shape needs to change.
It occurred to me later the bigger issue is probably with the (non-default) lining numbers. While less distinct, they are still different:
The narrower shape of the zero is quite common and distinguishes it from the O in context. Out of context of course either could be anything, but the same reasoning still applies: slashed or dotted zeros are not the norm for non-monospace programmer fonts and such a glyph if added should be a stylistic alternate.
Sugestion add a slash over or dot in the zero glyph.