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Windows font that clearly disambiguates the number ZERO from letter O


Our intranet web pages need to clearly disambiguate between the letter O and the number ZERO. Is there a screen+printer font that is installed on WindowsXP and Vista that does this either putting a dot inside zero or a slash through it?

If there isn't such a font on the machines themselves, is there a way to embed the font in the page, or some other way for the web page to substitute a glyph for the zero glyph in one of the standard fonts, like Arial?

Thanks


Solution

  • By using @font-face you can embed a font into the page so that it will be downloaded as needed. There are a few sites now that will provide fonts to embed, many of them free; one example is Inconsolata hosted by Google.