woodelf wrote:
  Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
 They look pretty distinct to me (X11, font is Vera Sans Mono).  By
 "modern displays" what exactly do you mean?
 
 My font is the delault windows netscape mail-reader font. 
 That would be Courier New if you didn't touch the defaults.  I haven't
 either, and I do agree that l and 1 are barely distinguishable.
 About a month ago, there was a thread in this group about finding an
 alternative "system" monospaced font -- was a concensus ever reached?
 Any download links, anyone? 
Bitstream Vera is free as in beer and free as in speech.