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March 21, 2012 11:17 pm GMT
Original Link: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/03/weird-and-wonderful-yet-still-illegible/
Weird And Wonderful Typography - Yet Still Illegible
First a question (or perhaps a Freudian jab at your subconscious): What does this shape represent?Could it be a trowel, a duck, an ornamental motif, or a seed-pod? I know, Aladdin’s Lamp! What if I told you it was an alphabetic character? What alphabet would you assign to it? Cham? Telugu? Perhaps it has the cursive quality of South Asian letterforms, created on bamboo strips (or palm leaves) and written with the pen held in one’s fist… doesn’t it?Original Link: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/03/weird-and-wonderful-yet-still-illegible/
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