: The most legible sans-serif question mark for small sizes? Trying to come up with the most legible sans-serif question mark for my Google reCAPTCHA's help icon. The ones that Google use are

@Nimeshi706

The thing is I needed a better question mark altogether. It also had to be aliased. So I came up with this. Still not fully content, but I'll do for now.

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@Chiappetta793

I found that just by changing two pixels in the middle of the second image to white, I could make it a lot more clear:



Here they are at normal size:



It's definitely a little better. So, you might do well just by scaling down Helvetica and then zooming in all the way to see what's making it fuzzy, and then fixing it from there. I didn't spend a lot of time, but here's my attempt to do it with Arial. The first one is just Arial Bold set at 8pt and anti-aliased as Strong, and the second was me playing with it just a little:





In conclusion, my answer is stick with the font you want to use, but get down into the pixel level and make it work for you!

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