Free serif font with clearly distinguishable 0 (zero) character

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Published on 2012-09-08T09:48:59Z Indexed on 2012/09/08 9:50 UTC
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I'm using gLabels to create some small pieces of paper to give away to people - Just two lines of about 15-20 characters each. One of the important parts of the design is that there are no "o" ("oh") characters, but there are "0" ("zero") characters in an all-lowercase URL. Therefore I need a non-monospaced (and very legible in print) font where "0" cannot be confused with "o" even without reference.

The closest thing I've found so far is Andale Mono 0, O and o in Andale Mono and Inconsolata 0, O and o in Inconsolata, but they are both monospace, and as such not very easy to read in print.

Alternatively, to find a font myself, is there some way to preview all fonts in the Ubuntu repositories without installing them?

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