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This was very obviously inspired by Randall Munroe's "capital numbers" comic and I find the lack of acknowledgement disappointing. https://www.xkcd.com/2206/ h
by Causality1 6y ago
This was very obviously inspired by Randall Munroe's "capital numbers" comic and I find the lack of acknowledgement disappointing.
https://www.xkcd.com/2206/ https://www.xkcd.com/2206/
- c3534l 6y agoI had this same idea when I was 7. Its just not a unique thought. However, it is interesting that the actual glyphs used are somewhat similar.
- alanbernstein 6y agoWell there is a sort of catch-all acknowledgement at least: > Probably someone already had this idea and did it before I was even born
- dhosek 6y agoArguably, lining figures are uppercase numbers and old-style figures are lowercase numbers. Certainly, the former work better in an all-caps setting than the latter, and the latter in mixed-case typesetting than the former. I used to set Canadian and British postcodes, which are mixes of letters and numbers using small caps and old-style figures when I printed mailing labels for the magazine I published in the 90s.
- Balgair 6y agoA real shame that he didn't put in the numbers to see what their capitals may have been