• I prefer sans-serif fonts visually but prefer serif for readability. So I use Atkinson Hyperlegible which is a mish-mash of both.

    And bonus meme:

    • Atkinson Hyperlegible is such a good font. I don’t care that it breaks style guides or whatever with the mixed serifs, it’s so nice and easy to read.

      • Slash through the 0 (zero) to distinguish from O (capital o) is nice. Those can be a mess too.

        Similar to parent commenter, I don’t like serifs either, so only using them selectively for disambiguation is nice.

        • It’s got a lot of really thoughtful little touches. Great differentiation between 8(eight) and B(uppercase b) too for example. And lower case g q p all easy to distinguish. It really makes reading easier.

    • A lot of fonts have stylistic alternatives for this, like Inter’s “disambiguation” setting! Not to talk Atkinson Hyperlegible down, it’s a great font!

      There is also Hyperlegible Sans, which is a sort of Inter/AH hybrid

  • My wife’s coworker girlfriend named “alexa” and he never go out for drinks and so after work because she didn’t let him, so they always tease him with “Alexa, can I go out to get a beer” “Permission denied. Come home immediately”. When they broke up and he got a new girlfriend, they named her Siri and joked that it was a upgrade because she let him drink with them after shift.

  • That’s why I try to always type it out as A.I., in order to ensure there’s little confusion.

  • Weird Al should do a parody of you can call me Al by Paul Simon, but change it to you can call me AI

    • 1 month

      One could film this parody in the style of ‘the bodyguard’ but with weird Al in the starring role, all made with AI ofcourse

  • Our HR person is an Al and every new hire thinks they’re an AI.

  • What’s also frustrating is “al” is a word in Dutch, meaning although or everything. It’s often used at the start of a sentence, thus capitalised and indistinguishable from AI. After reading too much about A.I., which is unavoidable nowadays, it messes with reading everything, because every now and then a sentence starts with “al” and your brain messes up and you have to go back.