Password font : characters l and 1 look identical

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#1828 Password font : characters l and 1 look identical

Milestone: KeePass_2.x

Status: closed

Owner: nobody

Labels: None

Priority: 5

Updated: 2019-06-07

Created: 2019-03-15

Creator: BlackShark

Private: No

Hello,
I am using keepass 2.41
When displaying passwords by clicking the button with the three dots, the special disambiguation font used has two almost indistinguishable characters : minor case letter l and the number 1.
This has caused me some headaches when I didn't understand why my password wan't working.

Context : Some website or program registration process disables copy-paste for registering your password for the first time.
The user prepares a password in keepass, fails to copy-paste, then copies the password by hand, mistakes the letter l for a 1, or vice versa.
Then when logging in, copy-paste works, the user copies straight out of keepass, and login fails because that one character was wrong.

I hope you'll be able to fix this.
You are making a great piece of software, love you guys !

Discussion

BlackShark - 2019-03-15

I forgot to add, my OS is Windows 10

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wellread1 - 2019-03-15

Change the password font in Tools>Options>Interface(tab)>Select Password Font(button).

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Dominik Reichl - 2019-03-15

status: open --> closed
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Dominik Reichl - 2019-03-15

For password text boxes, KeePass uses the default monospace font suggested by .NET/Windows. Choosing a font can be complicated (for instance, it should support many characters for the current language), thus I'd like to leave the choice up to .NET/Windows.

Best regards,
Dominik

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BlackShark - 2019-03-15

Which good font should I use ?
It looks like keepass uses courrier new by default (since I have never changed it)

I am not a regular user of text editors, I am not familiar with the hundreds of fonts already isntalled on my coputer.
I need a normal looking font without ambiguity

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BlackShark - 2019-03-15

I just googled about choosing a font with disambiguation, i found the answer I was looking for.
Someone recommended consolas which is bundled with windows. The original discussion was about disambiguation the letter O from the number 0, but it looks like this font also disambiguates well enough i L and 1

So I have my answer

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Paul - 2019-03-16

Why are you reading the passwords? KeePass enters them for you.

cheers, Paul

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strarsis - 2019-06-07

What about shipping a very non-ambiguos font with KeePass,
for example, Anonymous Pro and Anonymous Pro Minus
(both got Open Font License (OFL)).
Or make a font that is specifically designed for passwords, KeePass font? :)

Also, how can I also change the font in the large description/body field in KeePass?

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Paul - 2019-06-07

The font was chosen as it's built-in to Windows and shows the most characters no matter what language.

cheers, Paul

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