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Despite seeing it millions of times in pretty much every picture book, every novel, every newspaper and every email message, people are essentially unaware of the more common version of the lowercase print letter "g," Johns Hopkins researchers have found.
Most people don't even know that two forms of the letter -- one usually handwritten, the other typeset -- exist. And if they do, they can't write the typeset one we usually see. They can't even pick the correct version of it out of a lineup.
[...] Unlike most letters, "g" has two lowercase print versions. There's the opentail one that most everyone uses when writing by hand; it looks like a loop with a fishhook hanging from it. Then there's the looptail g, which is by far the more common, seen in everyday fonts like Times New Roman and Calibri and, hence, in most printed and typed material.
Source: http://releases.jhu.edu/2018/04/03/jhu-finds-letter-weve-seen-millions-of-times-yet-cant-write/
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday April 06 2018, @02:11PM (1 child)
So, no, the schools in Florida haven't been teaching cursive for at least 10 years now... at least not the way they did 30 years ago. 30 years ago it was the mandatory form of writing from 3rd grade and up. 10 years ago it was more of a: here's another way of writing you might see... thing.
But, what I'm wondering is: are there any font-geeks who really care about this article? And, if so, isn't this like super-elementary font-geekery? Far below anything interesting to people who might be interested, I would think.
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(Score: 1) by gtomorrow on Friday April 06 2018, @03:21PM
Joe, I'm what you'd consider a font-geek but, no, this article is below my geekery. If we were discussing designing fonts, well, then yes...maybe.
Much as I am a "typophile" (goes with my professional territory) I don't give a rat's ass that people don't write out the two-storey lower-case "a" either.