From: Adam Twardoch (list.adam@twardoch.com)
Date: Wed May 09 2007 - 20:04:19 CDT
Asmus Freytag wrote:
> I buy that the minute the upper case forms of 'o', 'c' and (regular)
> 's' are rendered with 'edges'. ;-)
Well, no. But they all are simple shapes that are usually drawn with one
penstroke.
> Frankly, looking at the examples, your suggested shape is very clear,
> but it's not self-evident (I would not have recognized it, except
> after having endured the debate on this issue with dozens of
> examples). After 50 years of common use, who knows, but right now, it
> works better if the shape contains hints of its lower case origin.
Andreas Stötzner's "Graphokombinatorik" includes my proposed shape as
valid:
http://www.signographie.de/cms/upload/pdf/Signa9_Kombinatorik_SZ_3.0.pdf
(variant A1-B2-C1)
A.
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