4 ms·
the thing that bugs me the most about all this is all caps Numerous studies have shown by now that SHOUTING CASE is the slowest to read. Humans read words by t
by culi 4y ago
the thing that bugs me the most about all this is all caps
Numerous studies have shown by now that SHOUTING CASE is the slowest to read. Humans read words by their shapes not by individual letters. Capital letters lose the distinctive shapes that their lowercase counterparts often have and thereby also become more ambiguous and error prone
- dhosek 4y agoExcept that this isn’t really true. Some writing systems lack the ascenders and descenders of the Latin alphabet and reading still happens. Lowercase letters themselves are a late addition to the Latin alphabet. Most readability studies fail the replication test yet they get repeated as if they were scientific facts.
- aksss 4y agoIn a sea of lowercase prose, all caps stands out from the rest.