Verdana, of course, gets installed on every Windows or Mac computer with Internet Explorer 4 or later. There are many common sans-serif fonts that do not, including Microsoft’s Verdana (“Il”), Tahoma (“Il”), and Trebuchet MS (“Il”). Helvetica / Swiss (in every variant I’ve encountered), as well as Univers / Zurich, Arial, etc., all have this problem. I should not have to try to figure out if “George, III” refers to George the Third, or George who was absent because he was sick (ill), or even George from Illinois (using old-style US State abbreviations that predate the modern two-uppercase-letter codes).
As for me, any font that makes it difficult if not impossible to distinguish a lower-case “L” from an upper-case “i” is a font that violates the goals of readability and legibility.
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