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23 March 2007

Have captcha fonts evolved to being totally unreadable? I tried to find a reputable clearinghouse on the state-of-the-art of captcha fonts without much success. Anyone know of one?

post by: mischief at: 20:12 | 6 comments

While I don't know about any site that talks about the subject, I find rapidshare's captcha validation images quite good.

posted by Memo 23 March | 23:24

Hmm, rapidshare's captchas are the ones I find most unreadable and the reason for this post. I misread their characters at least a third of the time.

posted by mischief 23 March | 23:49

Well, you're not human a third of the time then.

Seriously, I meant good as in being hard to be computer-deciphered. Sadly, humans tend to have problems with that too.

posted by Memo 23 March | 23:56

Yeah, if people cannot decipher the characters, the font isn't very good.

posted by mischief 24 March | 00:19

What's annoying is I use those captcha fonts for my stockdump spams. And if people can't read my stockdump spams then how in hells name am I going to bump the price of this stock up.

posted by seanyboy 24 March | 03:47

My main beef with captchas is that some of them are case sensitive. I dread seeing P,S,X,V or O, as frequently I have no idea whether I should hit shift or not.

posted by Lentrohamsanin 24 March | 15:02

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