• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    And I have no clue where I’ve hidden my calligraphy stuf

    Le excuse maxima

    What’d you need “calligraphy stuff” for?

    I really haven’t written jack shit in years except on digital so excuse the shittiness but I think that shittiness makes it a rather good example of casual writing.

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        21 hours ago

        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.

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          19 hours ago

          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.