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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 06 2018, @06:13PM (1 child)
It's the one with downstroke on the left (downstroke joins the two loops) and serif pointing to the right.
I, my wife, and my daughter all took guesses this morning about which it was: we each picked a different character, for seemingly good reasons, and all three of us were wrong. I'm sure that there are historical reasons for the typeset g to look like that, but they don't make sense to anyone in my family.
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Monday April 09 2018, @08:50AM
The top right one, then. Wasn't that easier?
Amusingly, they changed the image! It now references this JPG [jhu.edu], much higher resolution that the one they embedded originally, which is no longer embedded but which is still available at its URL. It's now clear that it says Answer: Top right.
I would've guessed the bottom right one - I join you in the 'wrong' camp.