{"id":1000070,"date":"2006-06-29T07:06:13","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T12:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/web-development\/2006\/06\/29\/the-problem-with-gill-sans\/"},"modified":"2006-06-29T16:15:38","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T21:15:38","slug":"the-problem-with-gill-sans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/web-development\/2006\/06\/29\/the-problem-with-gill-sans\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with Gill Sans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family: 'Gill Sans'\">1&apos;ve decided that as pretty as Gill Sans is, it&#8217;s not going to work. On rereading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/pop-culture\/videogames\/2006\/05\/23\/world-of-warcraft-tips\/\">an older post<\/a> in the new font, 1 noticed a major flaw in its design that makes it unsuitable for production use. 1f you&#8217;re reading this post in Gill Sans, you may want to switch your font to see what 1&apos;m talking about. 1f you&#8217;re reading it in another font, doubtless you&#8217;ve already noticed the problem.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the end, I&#8217;m afraid Gill Sans is just one more example of the preference to form over function. It would be so easy to create a one glyph that was clearly distinguishable from the I glyph, but I guess that simple and obvious solution offended some designer&#8217;s sense of aesthetics, legibility be damned. I&#8217;ll have to explore a few more fonts. Perhaps a basic Helvetica or Optima might be nice? Anyone know of a common Gill Sans derivative that distinguishes ones from I&#8217;s and zeroes from O&#8217;s?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1&apos;ve decided that as pretty as Gill Sans is, it&#8217;s not going to work. On rereading an older post in the new font, 1 noticed a major flaw in its design that makes it unsuitable for production use. 1f you&#8217;re reading this post in Gill Sans, you may want to switch your font to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-development","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}