They don't need to make the letters like this. Just like they don't need to make 1, L and i look exactly the fucking same.

• 1 can just be a 2 stroke character. The hat can be part of the numbers
• If sans serif H isn't "-" then capital i can be a character made of 3 strokes.
• Lower case L can have a fucking tail, that can be a feature of the letter just like the curve at the top of an f