Typefaces and fonts

I am annoyed that the capital I and the lowercase l usually look the same (despite minute differences, if any) in many san serif fonts, which are more elegant and modern.

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One unfortunate consequence of preferring san serif while needing to tell these two symbols apart led me to consistently use the numeral 1 to represent the capital I in SAMPA, for the short i sound in English, e.g. /b1t/ instead of /bIt/. This means I can't use "1" for the minor narrow-transcription sound of /l1vd/ for lived. This conflation of /1/ and /I/ is all over the place in my Anki notes where I have lots of SAMPA transcriptions.