Now what exactly does this prove? That a non historic writing utensil in a completely different typeface doesn’t look at all like Fraktur? I mean, yes, you’re right.
Since the typeface is standardised it highlights the issue, whereas when you write manually, you can use slightly different spacing (like making the u wider) so it’s more easily legible.
No harm done. I was just trying to make clear that people a long time ago weren’t complete idiots trying to write as unintelligible as possible. The examples further above were intentionally made to be as hard as possible to read, but not because people back then didn’t figure out how not to be knobs yet.
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Now what exactly does this prove? That a non historic writing utensil in a completely different typeface doesn’t look at all like Fraktur? I mean, yes, you’re right.
https://youtube.com/watch/5UPC60e3Lsw
I thought the discussion was about legibility in general, not the exact typeface. My bad.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minim_(palaeography)
Since the typeface is standardised it highlights the issue, whereas when you write manually, you can use slightly different spacing (like making the u wider) so it’s more easily legible.
No harm done. I was just trying to make clear that people a long time ago weren’t complete idiots trying to write as unintelligible as possible. The examples further above were intentionally made to be as hard as possible to read, but not because people back then didn’t figure out how not to be knobs yet.