Which font(s) do you use to notice tiny, hard-to-find typos? Thread poster: Elisa Bottazzi
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Sometimes (especially when I am tired) it is hard for me to detect small "typos", the ones that your spell checker does not detect as they are in fact correct words.
For instance, an "a" placed instead of an "e", an "l" instead of an "i", an "o" instead of an "a", and so on. Depending on the font, some letters can be visually very similar, therefore typos are harder to detect.
I would like to ask if you managed to find a kind of font that makes it easier to spot these ... See more Sometimes (especially when I am tired) it is hard for me to detect small "typos", the ones that your spell checker does not detect as they are in fact correct words.
For instance, an "a" placed instead of an "e", an "l" instead of an "i", an "o" instead of an "a", and so on. Depending on the font, some letters can be visually very similar, therefore typos are harder to detect.
I would like to ask if you managed to find a kind of font that makes it easier to spot these kinds of mistakes - a font featuring unmistakable letters "a", "o", "e", etc.?
Thanks a lot! ▲ Collapse
| | | | Nikita Kobrin 
Lithuania
Local time: 18:40
Member (2010)
English to Russian
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| | Not what you asked but ... | Nov 15, 2021 |
Elisa Bottazzi wrote:
Sometimes (especially when I am tired) it is hard for me to detect small "typos", the ones that your spell checker does not detect as they are in fact correct words.
For instance, an "a" placed instead of an "e", an "l" instead of an "i", an "o" instead of an "a", and so on. Depending on the font, some letters can be visually very similar, therefore typos are harder to detect.
I would like to ask if you managed to find a kind of font that makes it easier to spot these kinds of mistakes - a font featuring unmistakable letters "a", "o", "e", etc.?
Thanks a lot!
... using the read aloud function can be good for finding typos that your eyes easily skip over when reading the text normally.
I've never tried changing the font.
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MollyRose
United States
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English to Spanish
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Thanks to what Nikita Kobrin wrote, I changed my MemoQ font to Verbana, and it is a lot easier to read on the screen! I had chosen something before, trying to keep it sans serif, but this makes quite a difference. Thanks.
| | | | Elisa Bottazzi
Italy
Local time: 17:40
English to Italian
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Dear colleagues, thank you all for your precious suggestions, especially to Samuel – the images you posted are great. I will try the fonts you all linked/suggested!
Regarding the read aloud function, I do not think this is an option for me instead, because I feel like it is slower and there could be also distracting mispronunciations.
| | | | Adieu
Ukrainian to English
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| Capital i, lowercase L, and 1 should be as distinct as possible | Nov 16, 2021 |
At least for latin scripts.
| | | | Adieu
Ukrainian to English
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| European to European language rates | Nov 16, 2021 |
...must still be very, very nice. Read aloud? Ain't nobody got time for that (c)
At least not for technical jobs in Slavic languages.
Rachel Waddington wrote: Elisa Bottazzi wrote:
Sometimes (especially when I am tired) it is hard for me to detect small "typos", the ones that your spell checker does not detect as they are in fact correct words.
For instance, an "a" placed instead of an "e", an "l" instead of an "i", an "o" instead of an "a", and so on. Depending on the font, some letters can be visually very similar, therefore typos are harder to detect.
I would like to ask if you managed to find a kind of font that makes it easier to spot these kinds of mistakes - a font featuring unmistakable letters "a", "o", "e", etc.?
Thanks a lot!
... using the read aloud function can be good for finding typos that your eyes easily skip over when reading the text normally. I've never tried changing the font.
[Edited at 2021-11-16 08:37 GMT]
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Kay Denney
France
Local time: 17:40
French to English
Adieu wrote:
European to European language rates...must still be very, very nice. Read aloud? Ain't nobody got time for that (c)
At least not for technical jobs in Slavic languages.
If you're producing a text that needs to flow well, that may be used as a script for a recording, I'd say this would be a pretty good way of doing a final proofread. This probably isn't going to be the case for technical jobs, but I regularly translate song lyrics and scripts, so this is a very useful tip for me!
| | | | Tjasa Kuerpick
Slovenia
Local time: 17:40
Member (2006)
Slovenian to German
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| Some that show the letters clearly | Nov 24, 2021 |
I prefer Cousine - my favourite Here are some that show the letters more clearly
| | | | | Allways monospaced fonts. | Dec 7, 2021 |
They force you to read exactly what is written, not what you think is written.
Some monospaced fonts look ugly at first glance (like Courier, Monaco or Consolas). And they don't seem to read smoothly.
But some of them are great, like my favourite: Source Code Pro:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Source%20Code%20Pro
I use it for all plain... See more They force you to read exactly what is written, not what you think is written.
Some monospaced fonts look ugly at first glance (like Courier, Monaco or Consolas). And they don't seem to read smoothly.
But some of them are great, like my favourite: Source Code Pro:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Source%20Code%20Pro
I use it for all plain text-based work: software coding, web design, notes and MemoQ. ▲ Collapse
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