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Seeing it uppercase is jarring, but if we were used to it, it might be more legible.
by hyperhello 3y ago
Seeing it uppercase is jarring, but if we were used to it, it might be more legible.
- out-of-ideas 3y agoright; its all subjective based on our experiences; if we were strictly exposed to upper-case only from the start, then it would be jarring to see lower-case later on
- kqr 3y agoBut now you're subsituting "jarring" for "legible". They're dependent, of course, but not synonyms. What's jarring depends entirely on what we are used to. What's legible depends among other things on how distinctive the shapes look to our visual system.
- Palomides 3y agoword shape is extremely important for ease/speed of reading, so making text blocky and homogenous with no ascenders/descenders is empirically worse