Maybe not at super large font sizes. But even lowercase i and l are easy enough to confuse at a glance mid-word in most sans-serif fonts, not to mention uppercase I and lowercase l. You don’t even need “confusable” glyphs to create a domain name that will stand up to a casual visual confirmation from a busy user in a phishing context.
This is really cool. I loved the technical breakdown and side by side comparisons. Surprised to hear that Microsoft and MacOS default fonts didn't score so well!
Maybe not at super large font sizes. But even lowercase i and l are easy enough to confuse at a glance mid-word in most sans-serif fonts, not to mention uppercase I and lowercase l. You don’t even need “confusable” glyphs to create a domain name that will stand up to a casual visual confirmation from a busy user in a phishing context.
Every Albert, Alfred, or Alphonso who goes by “Al” getting confused with bots right now…
I used to read"Weird Al" as "AI" even before the LLM craze.
This is really cool. I loved the technical breakdown and side by side comparisons. Surprised to hear that Microsoft and MacOS default fonts didn't score so well!