For a proportional font, Verdana, Regular seems to come close with, it
seems to me, good differentiation between l, I, and 1.  O and 0 are a
bit problematic as 0 is not dotted or slashed but is more of an ellipse.

On this GNOME desktop the interface is set to Cantarell, Regular, and
while it has a small serif at the bottom of l, I is simple vertical
line, and 1 has the customary serif at the top.  O and 0 are not well
differentiated except 0 being a slightly narrower oval.

There are times when I've pasted something like a random character
combination password into a terminal just so I could see what the exact
characters are.

In my terminals I have switched to Fira Code, Regular as well as in the
GNOME settings.

- Nate

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