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> Here are the six that have made my cut [...] The question is: how do they make you feel?

Feel, schmeel, I'd have vetoed Berkeley Mono right away for the very practical offense of making 0 resemble O. Even in my pre-coding youth, I already had an inordinate fondness for the disambiguations of OCR-A [0]...

> HARRISON FORD

Hold up... Why is that one twisted!? Is it an optical illusion? Am I going nuts?

Nope. I opened it up in GIMP and I'm not (that type of) crazy: The H is ~4 pixels higher than the D, as if the whole thing was rotated by 1° clockwise. However the same rotation isn't present on the which appear cards immediately before and after.

I assume this is subtle quirk introduced the video-editing process, but if it happened today (instead of back in 1982) I could entertain the idea that it's One Weird Trick intended to attract viewer attention via subtle wrongness.

> we obsess over the details.

"I'm doing my part!" <Starship-Troopers salute>

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A

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