Stylized Script Legibility
Users debate the legibility and visual similarities of compact, stylized, or shorthand forms of the Latin alphabet, often mistaking them for hieroglyphs, stenography, or historical scripts like Sütterlin, while discussing glyph confusions across fonts and languages.
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It looks more like stenography to me. You can even recognize the contours of regular Latin letters.
Wouldn't this be closer to hieroglyphics?
If true then why are Latin and Arabic glyphs so different?
Very nice! For some reason I thought it was for letters, and was wondering why it thought my 'h' looked like a '6' heh
S 5 6 GP R2 Z8 Blook similar, depending on the fontIt would be better to include some lower case characters which have more visual variability than trying to obsess over an arbitrary, inflexible stylistic "design."
You might try to see if it's come kind of contextual speedwriting. I learned a version of speedwriting in college in which the letter "e" and the letter "i" are exactly the same and deduced later by context; likewise, the letter "h" and the letters "la" appear to be the same. In other words, it might be more of a crude symbolic code. Just a thought.
IMO, the rough shapes of the letters are too similar. It's not very legible.
Legibility would be my guess. Can't confuse ᴇ for c.
There are so many symbols from different languages that resemble each other. If I use a smiley face, that doesn't mean I used a "ü" or a "ツ" from another alphabet just because it looks similar. A backwards R is visually the same as a Cyrillic character, but that doesn't mean I'm writing in Cyrillic, just like a "P" is visually the same as a Cyrillic character but doesn't mean I'm writing in Cyrillic.
Yes, but she uses different glyphs depending on which letters are next to each other, not sure if that is supported.