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| Text Rendering Hates You (2019) (gankra.github.io) | ||
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| Juliate Feb 14, 2022 | on: Why are letters shaped the way they are? | context |
> An engineer could not have willed a system of k-segments into existence and imposed it on users.
They did reduce something that existed to a lower resolution so that it fits into k-segments: how do make o (lower case o), O (upper case o), 0 (zero), D (upper case d), Q (upper case q) coexist on a 7-segment display without ambiguity? You start by deciding that lower/upper case it not important and that only one case for each letter will subsist. That's reduction.
> The 7 segments had to be the subconsciously recognized abstract form of letters this entire time.
There are other languages of which the scripts do not fit in this view. English Roman-derivative alphabet is not "better" because it compresses itself more into a specific-imposed compression format.
https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/ from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30330144 is a perfect illustration.