Re: Missing geometric shapes

From: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper_at_crissov.de>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 16:50:15 +0100

Stephan Stiller (2012-11-07 21:35):
>>
>> HIGHEST RATING *****
>> HIGHER RATING ****+
>> HIGH RATING ****
>> MID-HIGH RATING ***+
>> MEDIUM RATING ***
>> MID-LOW RATING **+
>> LOW RATING **
>> LOWER RATING *+
>> LOWEST RATING *
>> NO RATING
>>
>> This way font designers could choose more freely how to display ratings, e.g. by thumb or arrow up or down, partially filled disc, tomato, five stars in the same space as 1 star …
>
> If I understand this correctly, this would lead to a bias for using a 5-star scale for ratings.

No, like P- Baehr says, stars (5-tier, or 9 with half-stars) would be just one option for font designers, but they could also use other symbols, which may work better with 2 levels (e.g. lowest, highest), 3 (add medium), 4 (lowest, low, high, highest) etc.
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