Pool.com please change your fonts

mvl · Apr 27, 2008

The font Pool.com is using for marketplace listings can be very misleading. There is no space between consecutive v's which make them look almost the same as a single w.

Check out the following two current marketplace listings for v v a t.net and v v q k.com:

BobDiGiTaL · Apr 27, 2008

the winner of vvqk.net is gonna be pissed.

mvl · Apr 28, 2008

Actually it's vvqk.com, but I'm pretty sure the high bidder (now @$725) is not aware of the double v.

Pool.com · Apr 30, 2008

Hi all,

This is a really good observation gang, thanks for hightlighting it. We are looking into a number of ways to solve the problem... a different font may work. We are also considering putting the number of characters in the first level domain name as a suffix... something like: vvat.com (4) where the "4" shows that "vvat" is really 4 letters and not 3 compared to wat.com (3).

Thoughts all?

Richard

Rockefeller · Apr 30, 2008

Why not capitalize the first letter?

south · Apr 30, 2008

Rockefeller said:
Why not capitalize the first letter?

That could confuse people between zero and o. And what if it was somethingvvsomething.something? Same problem. Changing the tracking/kerning would probably be best.