From: Dean Harding (dean.harding@dload.com.au)
Date: Wed May 09 2007 - 23:48:46 CDT
> Latin letters have a feature not to forget: letters should remain readable
> and immediately recognizable from their distinctive top half... (this is
> true for both lowercase and capital letters), otherwise the baseline must
> have a very strong difference (such as remaining blank, as between E and
F)
> The middle slice (near x-height) should carry no visual information in
> capitals (this is reserved for lowercase letters).
Wow, I'd never heard of that "feature" before. Are you sure it's on purpose,
though? I mean, there are a *lot* of exceptions. E & F you mentioned, but
there's also B & P & R, X & Y, O & Q or g & q, i & j, v & y and possibly
more. They all look identical in the top-half (it depends on which font you
use as well - in Arial, i & j are identical in the top-half, but not so in
Verdana for example)
Dean.
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