Not much here about how clear or appealing the results are, aesthetically. In that respect, I think the rules are quite successful. Many years ago, I made frie

Not much here about how clear or appealing the results are, aesthetically. In that respect, I think the rules are quite successful. Many years ago, I made friends with a Japanese person while we were both rambling in New Zealand, and we wrote to each other on paper for a while afterward before switching to email. I liked her handwriting, and I imagined it had something to do with her personality - clear, perky, rounded, friendly. I still had this image in mind until, much more recently, I visited the Death Railway museum at Kanchanaburi in Thailand, and I looked at the exhibits of records written by the Japanese jailers in the death camps during the second world war - and they had the same handwriting! The friendly handwriting of my correspondent was also the friendly handwriting of the commanders sending prisoners to their deaths. It's a good script, and I learned something about not judging people by their handwriting. The goodness of my correspondent was real, but it wasn't manifest in her writing.