623894 - In bold sans-serif font, you can't tell the difference between a small I and a small L

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rainer Zufall]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/8.0.552.224 Chrome/8.0.552.224 Safari/534.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.13

When you use a sans-serif font bolded, it takes you quite some time to check if it's an I or an L

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a HTML file with content <b style="font-family:sans-serif">iliilliiillliilllliilliiii</b>
2. Open it in Firefox.
Actual Results:  
You will notice that it's hard to tell if it is an I or an L.

Expected Results:  
An easier way to see a difference between those two letters.

Comment 1

[Neo Winsayshi]

How the hell does that have anything to do with Mozilla?

Comment 2

[James Teow [:jteow]]

I'm going to designate this as won't fix because rendered fonts are dependent on the font authors. If the font authors decide to provide little differentiation between specific glyphs, such as I and l, modifying the glyphs seems outside the purview of what the browser should do as it would be changing the intent of the font authors.