Thank you so much for making and sharing this. I'm especially grateful that you included the code variant. I'm not a programmer but love monospace fonts but the lack of a slashed zero in so many otherwise lovely fonts has been a deal breaker for me!
What is it that makes slashed zeroes so nuch more appealing than the other kinds of "zeroes"?
Slashed zeroes are definitely much better than those nasty dotted inverse donut zeroes
How does a dot in a zero even make any kinda logical sense? It's like a piece of dough floating in midair in the center of a donut
Dotted zeroes [insert copypasta] bad
I don't even know why I'm so obsessed with the slash in zeroes
I will defend the honor of dotted zeros! I really like the zero in Space Mono, I think that nailed the retro future aesthetic.
IMH(and no design school)O when the character is oblong and the dot is a circle, it creates a similar contrast to the straight slash through an ellipse, but with less visual weight.
Yeah the dot is mostly a manner of preference. It looks less crowded than slashed zero maybe? The dotted zero does disambiguate from U+00D8 [LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98).
I wonder if there is enough market demand for dumb and basic products that follow the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well. This may just be nostalgia talking, but I miss pre-iPhone technology.
A TV with no connectivity features, a car UI with actual buttons and knobs, a phone with one-handed usability, laptops with ethernet ports, home appliances without Wi-Fi.
Yes, I'm in the minority or maybe I'm just getting old.
All of these things exist, but they're designed for the commercial market and are usually MUCH more expensive than the consumer products.
For the car, check out any commercial rental truck, even today those will have very basic setups. Why? Because the people buying it aren't the people driving it, so they ONLY care about the legal minimums and what they need for the workers to get their jobs done.
There is a market but not enough profit in serving it, unfortunately. Maybe if more people were aware/cared there could be. There are car companies now bragging about retaining physical controls so there might be hope longer term. Sadly most people seem perfectly OK giving up their privacy. Maybe if more people get affected by things like higher or dropped insurance the word will get out and more importantly, start sinking in to people.
The irony of the Unix philosophy is that it's the antithesis of a computer. The entire point of a computer is to be a machine that can do anything if it's connected to the right hardware.
As computers are cheap and reliable now it's not surprising to me that we can make products that do more than one thing, and it's desirable to consumers.
The problem is when manufacturers start making these computers do things customers don't want and hiding it from them. And that's what regulation should support, since the market can't pick and choose which useful bits of an arbitrary machine are allowed to be used in a product when the manufacturer can reprogram it at will and never tells you what it does.
In addition to all of the reasons so many have mentioned, my favorite reason is this setting which allows me to easily use my preferred fonts on all websites: Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above
De-selecting the box and specifying my preferred fonts is the absolute first setting I change on every Firefox installation.
