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Caleb
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Question title font renders 0 (number zero) much like o (lower-case letter)

Currently, the font specification calls Georgia as the primary serif font for question titles. While undeniably an attractive font, its zero renders almost exactly the same as a lower case letter 'o'. This introduces a significant level of ambiguity:

Georgia rendering a zero

While I think it extremely unlikely that there is a serif font that is readily available on most Unix user's machines that would have a slashed or dotted zero (the ideal), with only a small tweak to the CSS, it would be possible to improve the rendering of zeros for most users:

Times as the default

I'm reluctant to suggest a significant change as I think the overall look of the site is extremely professional - however, for a site for coders and geeks, having ambiguous zeros is rather unfortunate1.

With only a small change to the stylesheet, this can be improved. From:

#question-header .question-hyperlink { color: #155078; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 24px; ... } 

to:

#question-header .question-hyperlink { color: #155078; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 28px; ... } 

Is this something that others are similarly exercised about? Could it be considered for a change?

Other example questions where this has an impact (mentioned in chat):

jasonwryan
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