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Is "you have to twist your head 90 degrees" some kind of new web aesthetic I haven't heard of?
by mdszy 7y ago
Is "you have to twist your head 90 degrees" some kind of new web aesthetic I haven't heard of?
- TehCorwiz 7y agoJapanese text is commonly written either left-to-right or top-to-bottom. You'll see top-to-bottom most often in newsprint or manga. After clicking on the little 'person' icon in the lower right of the control you're taken to the author's personal site I assume. The site seems to indicate that they're either located in Japan or natively Japanese. In this case the Japanese text is correctly oriented, however the English text is rotated 90 degrees as a result. Since they author is probably aiming for a Japanese audience this doesn't come off as odd.
- mrob 7y agoIt looks odd to me because the individual English characters are rotated. Vertical Japanese text doesn't rotate the characters.
- Grue3 7y agoWhen English phrases are interspersed in vertical Japanese text (for example within magazine articles) they're often rotated.
- Navarr 7y agoWhat seems odd to me is that the color list seems laid out LTR instead of RTL despite being top-to-bottom.